Data Compliance Engineer
CurrentOptions is the leading managed service and IT infrastructure products provider to the global financial services sector. Founded in 1993, the company began life as a hedge fund technology services provider. Today over 150 firms globally leverage the Options platform, including the leading global investment banks, hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, broker/dealers, private equity houses and exchanges. Combining innovative technology solutions with highly experienced technology management and support staff, the Options platform delivers the scalability, strength and security of an enterprise platform with the efficiencies of a hosted solution.Providing windows desktop and server support for 100+ hedge fund companies ranging from 10-250 users each as well as production support on market data feeds to a number of large Investment banks. Tasks involved production support, building and maintaining Windows servers (2008/2012), as well as backups management globally. Majority of work was done remotely from South Africa with visits to UK, USA and Asia when required. • Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 Builds• IBM Bladecenters• VMWare (vSphere)• Microsoft 2nd & 3rd line systems support• Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2007/2012, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012• Veritas Netbackup (Technical lead)• Support of trading applications such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Tradeweb, Eze, Sophis• Cisco Call Manager IP Phone administration & support• Microsoft Skype for business• Microsoft Hyper-V• Microsoft SCCM• Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring (Technical lead)• Splunk• Cacti (network monitoring)• IBM 3par Storage• Trend AV• Nessus Professional• Checkpoint firewall• Fortigate• Networks• Out Of hours 2nd & 3rd line on-call support covering UK, US and Asia escalations
