Senior PeopleSoft Administrator - Enterprise Application Systems

Details

The Bloomberg Enterprise Application Systems team within the Bloomberg Engineering Department is responsible for the administration, engineering, and technical operation of enterprise applications supporting Bloomberg’s internal business functions. The team manages third-party enterprise applications across on-premise and cloud environments, supporting functions including accounting, supply chain, workplace operations, and North American payroll.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of enterprise application platforms throughout their lifecycle.
• Administer Bloomberg’s PeopleSoft environment, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, environment management, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, integrations, and production support.
• Administer PeopleSoft infrastructure, including WebLogic, Tuxedo, Application Server, Process Scheduler, and Integration Broker.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems, including redundancy, backup and recovery, disaster recovery capabilities, and operational procedures.
• Identify potential points of failure, improve system recoverability, and ensure critical applications can continue operating through infrastructure and application failures.
• Monitor vendor and internal security advisories, assess vulnerabilities, and implement patches, upgrades, or other remediations.
• Manage application security components, including authentication and access controls, certificates and secrets, network connectivity, and secure integrations.
• Cross-train with team members and take ownership of additional third-party enterprise applications across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Apply administration, security, integration, automation, monitoring, resilience, and lifecycle-management practices across evolving application platforms.
• Collaborate with application development, database, Linux, Windows, networking, security, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience administering PeopleSoft and PeopleTools environments.
• Experience independently managing enterprise application platforms, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities, evaluating vendor security advisories, and applying patches or other mitigations in a timely manner.
• Experience designing and operating highly available and resilient application environments.
• Understanding of redundancy, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, operating system, database, network, and integration layers.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, relational databases, networking, and application infrastructure.
• Experience supporting application integrations using REST APIs, SFTP, S3, and other file-based interfaces.
• Understanding of enterprise application security, including authentication, certificates, secrets, and secure connectivity.
• Experience developing scripts or automation for application administration, monitoring, maintenance, and operational activities.
• Ability and interest to learn new technologies and take ownership of systems beyond PeopleSoft.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PeopleSoft lifecycle and change-management tools such as PUM, Change Assistant, and Phire.
• Experience administering multiple third-party enterprise application platforms.
• Experience supporting applications across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Experience with public cloud or SaaS enterprise application platforms.
• Experience with Python, PowerShell, shell scripting, or other automation technologies.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, observability, secrets management, or identity and access management technologies.
• Experience designing or testing disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.
• Experience working with software vendors on upgrades, security issues, technical support, and product lifecycle management.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $155,000–$175,000 USD annually.
• Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability benefits, 401(k) matching, life insurance, and wellness programs.