System Engineer

Overview

Why Stifel Stifel strives for a culture that puts clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for handling the configuration/administration of systems across Stifel. Systems include, but are not limited to, a single server to a full server farm. Configures and integrates electronic and mechanical hardware with software products to meet the functional criteria of client specifications.

• Ensuring that an organization is operating at maximum efficiency, from manufacturing to distribution
• Speaking to and collaborating with a variety of people, such as vendors, management, IT staff and other Stifel associates during the creation and maintenance of a system
• Support and maintain IT configuration management databases, and integrate federated data to a holistic configuration management system
• Develop service dependency maps through physical and logical configuration item relationships
• Determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
• Recommend strategies, roadmaps, and standards for all platform infrastructures, ensuring security, and compliance with industry best practices
• Manage assigned projects and tasks and ensure timely completion
• Provide support for complex issues, partnering with other internal teams or vendors when appropriate

• Develop solutions to problems, as well as manage multiple issues at the same time
• Ability to use logic and reasoning when troubleshooting difficult issues
• Ability to think outside the box; imagine innovative effective solutions and designs
• Understanding and appropriately responding to feedback
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other team members

• Minimum
  
  Required:
  
  Bachelor0s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum
  
  Required:
  
  0-2 years' experience of system administration

• Minimum
  
  Required:
  
  None

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.