PA2025Q4JB036 Senior IT Engineer - Infrastructure

Locations: Lichfield | Hybrid

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company, SS&C provides expertise, scale, and technology to more than 20,000 organizations across 35 countries. The Technical Infrastructure team supports and evolves the hybrid technology platforms that underpin the SS&C Hubwise wealth platform.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to welcoming, celebrating and thriving on diversity
• Training: Hands‑On, Team‑Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

• Maintain, support, and enhance a hybrid infrastructure environment spanning private data centres and AWS.
• Design, configure, and administer AWS services including VPCs, EC2, load balancers, IAM, security groups, and monitoring.
• Support and manage Linux and Windows Server environments, including web and application services.
• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise networking including routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Wi‑Fi and firewall platforms.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure, network, and cloud incidents.
• Work with managed service providers and vendors to ensure infrastructure services meet performance, availability, and security requirements.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness to support 24/7 global operations.
• Contribute to infrastructure projects including upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and new service deployments.
• Apply cloud automation and deployment approaches to infrastructure and compute services, supporting scalable and repeatable environments.
• Document systems, processes, and changes, contributing to operational knowledge and continuous improvement.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in a senior IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or similar role.
• Strong hands‑on experience supporting hybrid environments across AWS and private infrastructure.
• Proven experience configuring and administering AWS services such as VPC, EC2, load balancers, IAM, and security controls.
• Awareness of cloud automation and deployment strategies, including infrastructure‑as‑code or automated provisioning and build/deploy tooling.
• Strong Linux and Windows Server administration skills.
• Solid networking fundamentals and experience with enterprise firewalls (e.g., Fortinet or equivalent).
• Excellent troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis skills across systems, networks, and cloud services.
• Experience working with third‑party providers and managed data centre environments.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of complex issues, and drive solutions through to completion.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team‑oriented approach.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.