Systems Engineer - 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 primarily third-party enterprise applications running across on-premise and cloud environments. These systems support business functions including Accounting, Supply Chain, and Workplace Operations. The team is responsible for the administration, reliability, security, resilience, and integration of these platforms with Bloomberg systems and external services.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of enterprise application platforms throughout their lifecycle.
• Administer Bloomberg’s PeopleSoft environment, which supports North American Payroll.
• Perform PeopleSoft installation and configuration, upgrades, patching, environment management, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, integrations, and production support.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available 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 other team members and take ownership of additional third-party enterprise applications across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop expertise in new platforms and apply administration, security, integration, automation, monitoring, resilience, and lifecycle-management practices across supported systems.
• Collaborate with application development, database, Linux, Windows, networking, security, and other infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience administering PeopleSoft and PeopleTools environments.
• Experience administering PeopleSoft infrastructure, including WebLogic, Tuxedo, Application Server, Process Scheduler, and Integration Broker.
• Experience independently managing enterprise application platforms, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities, including evaluating vendor security advisories and applying patches or other mitigations.
• 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, with the ability to work effectively across application, infrastructure, and security teams.

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.

Benefits

The salary range is $155,000–$175,000 USD annually, plus benefits and bonus. 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. Benefits are not provided directly to contingent workers, contractors, or interns.