Systems Engineer - Sell Side Solutions GBR Posted

Systems Engineer - Sell Side Solutions Location

London

Product

Bloomberg TEMS (Trade Execution Management System - TEMS) is looking for a sharp System Engineer with some Networking Experience

TEMS is a leading provider of high-performance trading solutions. We've delivered some of the world’s most advanced systems to a who’s who customer list that includes the largest global banks. Our software manages billions of dollars in transactions daily.

• Help manage and administer Broadway’s global trading hardware, network, systems, and data center infrastructure. Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, operating system, network, and performance issues within the trading environment.
• Serve as a systems administrator for production Windows and Linux environments, including server builds, patching, configuration management, access control, monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Support global data center and colocation environments, including server racking, cabling standards, power management, remote access, hardware replacement, inventory control, asset tracking, and coordination with data center providers.
• Manage smart hands / remote hands activities across global data centers, including break/fix work, physical installs, cable tracing, hardware swaps, optics replacement, console access, power cycling, and vendor coordination.
• Ensure the security of trading infrastructure. Remain current on information security best practices and recommend, implement, and maintain security tools, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Configure and support multicast networks and low-latency trading network requirements.
• Build and administer the hardware, network, operating system, virtualization, cloud, and database layers powering advanced trading systems.
• Manage Active Directory and identity-related services in trading environments, including users, groups, permissions, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, and authentication integrations.
• Collaborate with customers, vendors, exchanges, market partners, data center providers, and internal technical teams to implement and maintain network connectivity.
• Create and maintain documentation for colocation environments, infrastructure standards, asset inventory, operational runbooks, support procedures, and user-facing documentation for utilizing infrastructure services.
• Manage short- and long-term infrastructure projects while owning day-to-day production issues through resolution and keeping stakeholders informed of status, risks, and next steps.
• Leverage and expand automation across infrastructure activities to improve operational scale, reliability, repeatability, and speed using Power Shell, Python, Puppet, Foreman, Ansible, Open Stack, and related deployment/configuration tools.
• Automate server provisioning, operating system builds, configuration management, patching, application deployment, inventory updates, monitoring setup, and compliance checks.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code practices using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Foreman, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and version-controlled runbooks/playbooks.
• Participate in change management, incident response, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and continuous improvement efforts for global trading infrastructure.

• Superior Windows and Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills.
• Strong experience administering production servers, including hardware, operating systems, services, storage, networking, monitoring, patching, and security hardening.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills across hardware, networking, operating systems, and automation platforms.
• Experience managing asset inventory, spares, RMAs, lifecycle tracking, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure documentation.
• Knowledge of and experience implementing best practices to enforce network and system security, including standards such as ISO 27001, SOC, or similar control frameworks.
• Knowledge of IP routing, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, BGP, multicast, firewalling, VPNs, and network segmentation.
• Experience with configuration management, automation, and deployment…