Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Dimensional Fund Advisors

Job Description:

About Dimensional:

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.

The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer the platforms that power the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives. As a member of the Infrastructure Platform Team you will be a hands-on engineer for the core services utilized by every employee at Dimensional to communicate, coordinate, plan, and automate securely and reliably.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful

Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies

Solve problems systematically and transparently

Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively

Take a software engineering approach and demonstrate automation and security mindsets

What you might work on:

As a successful Infrastructure Engineer you will be analytical, detail oriented, focus on engineering and automation, and possess the capability to multi-task and problem solve. Additionally, you must be highly skilled in working with business users, external parties, and cross functional technology groups (Information Security, Network, Application Development, Service Desk, etc.). You will work on architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performing Windows, Citrix, AWS, and Azure environments. Implementations within these areas will take a software engineering approach and emphasize automation, zero-configuration, and zero-trust. In addition, you will hand-off operational tasks involved with Windows, Citrix and Cloud Services to Dimensional’s Infrastructure Operations team.

Support, engineer, and administer large-scale on-premise and multi-cloud (hybrid) infrastructure, including identity and access management (IAM) systems.

Develop and streamline processes using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python to support automation and administration of Windows/Azure technologies including Security/Compliance tools.

Align security, privacy, and operational requirements with practical, implementable engineering controls

Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to drive security initiatives in the hybrid infrastructure environment including threat management and Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

Ensure appropriate systems monitoring, alerting and reporting is implemented and supported globally including uptime, performance, capacity, and utilization/show back.

Drive the adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaS) approaches and tools through advocacy, example,