Senior Application Administrator

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Senior Application Administrator

Locations: London UK | Hybrid

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model

• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays

• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave

• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University

Get To Know The Team

SS&C Advent, a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry. We are seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to join our Managed Services team. The successful candidate will possess strong technical, analytical, and communication skills, along with the initiative and curiosity needed to thrive in a collaborative and evolving environment.

What You Will Get To Do

• Install, configure, and maintain SS&C Advent proprietary applications

• Upgrade and support Geneva client environments across the Managed Services platform

• Investigate and resolve production issues within Geneva environments

• Respond to ongoing service requests across a diverse portfolio of Managed Services clients

• Assist with the testing, documentation, and enhancement of operational runbooks

• Collaborate closely with team members and provide guidance and mentoring to junior colleagues

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, technical documentation, and operational procedures

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency across the client estate

• Manage infrastructure and platform projects from implementation through to production support

• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation

• Contribute to a global 24x7x365 Technical Operations organisation focused on delivering exceptional service and client success

What You Will Bring

• Strong experience administering enterprise applications, ideally within financial services or other highly regulated environments

• Significant Systems Administration experience supporting complex enterprise environments

• Extensive experience providing application and system support, including working with software vendors and third-party support teams to resolve technical issues

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective solutions

• Experience managing cloud and virtualised environments incorporating technologies such as Linux, Windows Server, Citrix, and VMware

• Windows Server administration experience in an enterprise environment

• Experience with scripting, automation, and configuration management technologies such as Shell, PowerShell, Chef, Jenkins, or comparable tools

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with both internal stakeholders and clients

• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment

• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, balancing project delivery, operational support, and service commitments

• Strong learning agility and the ability to quickly adopt and support new technologies

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting or administering SS&C Advent Geneva

• Experience within financial services technology environments

• Experience supporting business-critical enterprise platforms

• Exposure to infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, or cloud-native technologies

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.