About us
Our product is all about collaboration and innovation. So are our people. We’re a small team, but we’ve got a big vision: to build a brand-new infrastructure for operational risk management. It’s not easy. We’re redefining the way some of the world’s biggest financial services companies and banks work with data. There are a lot of challenges – but a lot of opportunities to think and act creatively, too.
Backed by banks (JP Morgan, Citi, Barclays, Lloyds, BNP) and ratings agencies, Acin helps banks objectively manage their risk control landscape. Based on a network of peers, Acin’s data protocols connect a bank’s risk control data across their firm and industry leading to greater cost savings, and creating huge efficiency savings across the bank both in front and back-office operations.
The role
As a Systems Administrator, you would be responsible for managing and maintaining the Azure platform to ensure its smooth operation and optimal performance.
Main duties
- Provide technical support for, non-production and production environments, including troubleshooting and remediation of technical issues.
- Research and answers technical application, database, server and security configuration questions. Serve as an escalation point for support and provide on-call support as required.
- Work with various technical and functional personnel as needed to fulfil requests for technical support, including application, system-to-system integrations and security administration.
- Monitor non-production and production environments and works in conjunction with, database administrators, security and systems administrators to provide performance tuning on application, database, server and security settings and features.
- Appropriately use tools and provides direction to efficiently manage code migrations, environment builds, testing and implementation.
- Apply patches and delivers minor and major application upgrades.
- Work with technical resources and in some cases functional / business analysts on application, database, server or security requirements.
- Design technical enhancements to support the application, database, server or security landscape.
- Actively participate in, and may lead, application administration maintenance or implementation plan walkthroughs.
- Support development of technical documentation to be used by application administration development or support teams.
- Actively participate in the testing of newly developed applications, integrations, systems, solutions and upgrades of applications or application support tools.
- Follow best practice application administration and change management procedures.
- Actively participate in smaller systems projects or enhancements, delivering assigned application administration tasks following project plans and estimates.
- Consistently identify and recommend improvement opportunities, log application administration requests and deliver upon application administration assignments that improve the system solution.
- Willingly share application administration knowledge and provide cross-training and peer support.
- Maintain a deep and broad knowledge of technology, equipment, and or systems in the assigned application areas.
- Maintain a deep and broad knowledge of the latest technologies associated with on premise application administrations.
- Actively participates in external technical application administration communities of practice gaining and sharing technical knowledge.
Requirements
- 3+ years of related experience required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, Data Science or Engineering preferred.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Experience supporting Azure applications.
- Strong understanding of system/application administration activities preferred.
- Solid experience with scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript) preferred.
- Experience with at least one structured programming language preferred.
- Solid understanding of application infrastructure and architecture preferred.
- Experience with multi-tier applications employing application and web servers preferred.
Benefits
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, dynamic fintech that is creating huge momentum in the market. Alongside a friendly, dynamic, and inclusive culture, we offer…
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Share options – we like to offer our employees a stake in our success
- Enhanced Private Health Insurance for you and your family
- Life insurance, including access to their Smart Health services such as unlimited access to an online GP as well as a range of other health and wellbeing experts
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies
- Perkbox - a discount platform and wellbeing resource centre.
- Employee Assistance Program – access to free counselling sessions and support through Perkbox.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car leasing
- Hybrid working options + an amazing office in Central London
- Regular company events and socials
- A strong team culture where successes are celebrated together. Our core company values are get up and go, keep going, and always further.
Acin is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
