Server Engineer

Server Engineer Infrastructure

• Financial Services
• City of London (EC1) ? Location: City of London (EC1) — onsite ? Type: Contract
• Inside IR35 ? Rate: Rate as per experience
• Inside IR35 ? Sector: Financial Services About the Role You'll be joining the infrastructure team at a major global financial services firm, working hands-on across their full technology stack. The scope is broad — PoC and RFP/RFE initiatives, day-to-day operations, and support of live IoT systems including building management, lighting controls, occupancy monitoring, and air quality. This isn't a narrow specialism role. You'll move between networking, server administration, automation scripting, and IoT/OT device support depending on what the day demands.

Requirements

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and supporting infrastructure PoC, RFP, and RFE initiatives across diverse platforms
• Managing and troubleshooting network and security configurations — routers, switches, proxies, firewalls, DMZ, RBAC, Kerberos, SSO, LDAP, AD
• Server administration across Windows, Linux, Mac, and vendor ecosystems (CA, BMC, IBM Data. Power)
• Writing and maintaining automation scripts in Power. Shell, Python, Perl, or Shell
• Supporting, troubleshooting, and upgrading IoT/OT devices across Android, Windows, Linux, Unix, iOS
• Working with Sec. Design teams to apply appropriate controls for integrated solutions
• Ensuring production systems stay compliant within the Hygiene programme What We Need
• Strong network and security background — you understand layers, configs, and authentication flows inside out
• Server administration across multiple OS and vendor ecosystems — platform-agnostic is the expectation
• Real scripting ability in Power. Shell, Python, Perl, or Shell — production experience, not surface-level
• Experience supporting IoT/OT devices in enterprise environments
• Clear, confident communication and stakeholder management skills
• CI/CD pipeline and cloud technology exposure Nice to Have
• BFSI or Capital Markets domain background
• CCNA, AWS, or Azure certifications
• Experience working in globally distributed teams