System/Network Administrator

Company:

Willowbridge Associates Inc. is an asset management company that seeks to deliver long-term capital appreciation investment strategies to clients. The firm was established in 1988 by Mr. Philip Yang and trades across discretionary global macro, systematic, and equity-based strategies. The firm’s proprietary investment research and dynamic, integrated risk management framework enable it to manage portfolios on behalf of sophisticated investors. The firm is headquartered in New Jersey.

Job Title:

System/Network Administrator

Overview:

This role focuses on maintaining and improving computer processes in production mode, and potential to be advanced to include software development responsibility. Must be a good team player with a proactive working attitude to support business needs and solve potential network, servers, and production issues. Must be detail-oriented with a sense of handling critical systems and a variety of network, servers, software, trading and business data. The potential growth is to develop, maintain, and support network, servers, software applications and systems to facilitate the day-to-day operations of a global asset management company. Gain real-world experience working in the financial investment sector, dealing with commodities, equities, and foreign exchange (FX) products. We are primarily a Microsoft software stack based on .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office 365. The firm is willing to train individuals with high potential and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities:

• Perform data processing operations in accordance with production schedule.
• Collaborating with Programmers, Systems Analysts and third party vendors to coordinate testing and production environments.
• Maintaining and managing processing logs and procedural manuals.
• Provide support and troubleshooting problems with users.
• Notify appropriate personnel of program/system errors.
• Managing Windows Server and Unix environments.
• Configuring and troubleshooting routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and LAN/WAN protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, OSPF/BGP).
• Experience with platforms like AWS, Azure, VMware, or Hyper-V.
• Enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), endpoint protection, and the 3-2-1 backup recovery strategy.
• Maintain and organize the AD environment, including user accounts, access restrictions, complex privilege configurations, and security groups.
• Design, implement, and maintain Group Policies (GPOs) to enforce security baselines, software deployment, and automated printer/hardware mappings.
• Oversee Windows Update strategy using WSUS, Intune, or similar tools to ensure all on-premise and cloud-hosted Windows servers receive routine and out-of-band security fixes promptly.
• Monitor and schedule production jobs.
• Manually or Schedule production batch jobs.
• Run, check, and analyze multiple reports throughout the day to ensure data integrity.
• Run and verify multiple reports at the end of the day to ensure trades and pricing data accuracy.
• Provide prompt support to the other teams as instructed by the supervisor.
• Research, analyze, and potentially process third-party data, statements, reports, and documents to fulfill business needs.
• Monitor and improve application reliability and performance.
• Create scripts or batch jobs to automate and streamline production processes.
• Document issues, solutions, and modifications.
• This is a fully on-premise position requiring your physical presence at our facility to manage critical infrastructure, server hardware, and local network operations.
• Due to the critical nature of our operations, this role requires flexibility for weekend work to perform scheduled off-peak maintenance, alongside participating in an after-hours on-call rotation to handle emergency infrastructure outages.

Potential Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and support software applications throughout all business units.
• Design, develop, test, and document all development-related works
• Contribute to the optimization of current applications and the future development of new applications
• Work with financial tools such as Bloomberg, CQG, SS&C Eze OMS, and SS&C TradeThru

Basic Requirements:

• A 4-year bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Must have a good understanding of computer science principles with potential development skills
• Expertise with MS Windows Operating System.
• Strong problem-solving skills with at least 1 year of relevant experience in information technology or computer systems management.
• Excellent ability to communicate in a team environment, working with people of varying backgrounds and disciplines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with .NET, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office 365 support and development
• Experience with any major programming languages
• Experience with scripting, Web, and UI development is all good pluses
• Experience in the financial sector (commodities, equities, foreign exchange) and related applications (ex., Bloomberg, Eze)
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux and scripts

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person