Senior Systems Engineer - Windows​/SQL Services

Location: New York

Senior Systems Engineer - Windows/SQL Services

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

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Description & Requirements
Description The Corporate Technology Group designs, deploys, and supports Bloomberg’s platforms and systems used by more than 21,000 employees across 170+ offices worldwide. The team supports critical infrastructure services that enable internal applications, data platforms, engineering workflows, and enterprise operations across Bloomberg.

What’s the Role?

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll help engineer, operate, and improve Bloomberg’s globally distributed Windows hosting and SQL Server database services. You will bring strong hands-on Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server administration experience, with enough infrastructure awareness to troubleshoot across virtualization, storage, networking, identity, and application dependencies.

We’ll Trust You ToEngineer, support, and troubleshoot governed Windows Server environments, including configuration, patching, clustering, Active Directory integration, platform services, and lifecycle management.

Administer and support Microsoft SQL Server services, including installation, configuration, patching, backup/restore, security, performance troubleshooting, availability, failover clustering, and operational support.

Diagnose complex service issues across Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, DNS, service accounts, networking, storage, virtualization, and application dependencies.

Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, service health reporting, documentation, and operational handoffs to reduce risk and improve supportability.

Identify and deliver improvements that simplify processes, reduce manual effort, increase automation, and improve the consistency of service delivery across the global operating model.

Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, preventative engineering, and operational readiness for business-critical platform and database services.

Partner across engineering, operations, application, database, security, and infrastructure teams to plan and execute platform and database service changes safely and effectively.

You’ll Need to Have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent platform, systems, and database services experience.
4+ years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise Windows Server environments, Microsoft SQL Server, hosted application platforms, or related infrastructure services.

Strong Windows Server administration experience, including troubleshooting, patching, Active Directory integration, DNS, Group Policy, service accounts, SPNs, DFS, clustering, and related platform services.

Strong hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration experience in an enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, patching, backup/restore, security, troubleshooting, performance, and high-availability technologies.

Working knowledge of the infrastructure dependencies that support Windows and database services, including virtualization, storage, networking, backup/recovery, and operational monitoring.

Working knowledge of Power Shell, SQL/T-SQL, Python, or similar scripting and automation technologies.

Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and operational discipline, with the ability to take ownership of complex issues and collaborate across engineering disciplines.

We’d Love to See

Experience with SCCM or similar tools for Windows operating system deployment, software deployment, patching, and configuration management.

Working knowledge of CI/CD, Dev Ops, Infrastructure as Code practices, or tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar.

Experience creating runbooks, playbooks,…