As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 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

Sr. Citrix Architect

Get To Know The Team:

The Sr. Citrix Architect partners with various functional areas to provide strategy, problem-solving, technical guidance, and project management as needed. This position will be accountable for identifying key business needs and risks to protect current and future state of the Citrix technology stack. The Sr. Citrix Architect will work in a team environment developing enterprise IT strategy and providing a vision aligned to changing business priorities through thought leadership, processes, structure and value delivery.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, 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
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

• Responsible for the architectural design, financial analysis, implementation and support of Citrix environments including Netscaler.
• Proactively monitor Citrix infrastructure for capacity, stress, risk and workload and take necessary remediation steps.
• Regularly participate in the planning and implementation of new projects.
• Ensure Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery policy.
• Continuously seek opportunities to optimize the Citrix environment to improve performance and maintain system high reliability, availability, and resiliency levels and ensure stable performance.
• Participate in the planning, implementation of major software and hardware upgrades and mandatory security patches, ensuring change management procedures are implemented and followed.
• Evaluates new or enhanced technologies that could improve current systems and support overall corporate goals including cost reductions.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience having architected large-scale, highly transactional virtual, storage, and data center solutions.
• A minimum of ten (10) year’s experience managing/implementing/supporting Citrix App/Desktop architecture.
• A minimum of ten (10) years experience with networking, storage, Server Virtualization back-up strategies, Data Center operations, and server technologies is required.
• A minimum of five (5) years experience with automation tools such as Ansible, SALT, Terraform, Python or PowerShell
• Detailed knowledge of server platform technology.
• Thorough understanding of security standards, knowledge of database products and utilities, comprehensive knowledge of server architectures.
• The individual must be able to communicate and have good team building skills.
• Self motivator and strong leadership qualities, multitasking and problem resolution.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at www.ssctech.com/careers.

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