Senior Systems Engineer

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich., and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 12 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few
• Promote from within culture

• This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of Wintrust's business
• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

Position Overview

• Proactive design and deployment of all PKI solutions, work with Advanced and Lead Engineers to support the environment.

• Administer and support core technologies (e.g. Venafi, Luna HSM, Certificate platform).
• Implement monitoring, configuration management and reporting functions that will make a hands-off environment and assist in the design.
• Assist in defining and documenting best practices and support procedures.
• Maintain certificate inventory and asset configuration documentation.
• Stay current with technological developments in systems administration technology and recommend ways to take advantage of new technology.
• Assist in conducting research and making recommendations on Windows Server / VMWARE / Unix / Linux / Storage / Recovery products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts as it pertains to the PKI platform.
• Respond to as needed and work to resolve all critical incidents.
• Work closely with various business users to define solutions that meet user expectations  
• Assist in identifying improvement opportunities and facilitate innovation
• Support the definition and development of documentation, procedures, and standards for PKI enterprise environments
• Support the evaluation and recommendation of tools and new technologies for the PKI enterprise environments
• Assist in performing impact analyses, research products, configure software, and establish standards and procedures that support the company’s PKI environment needs
• Assist in the root cause analysis for problems and drive strong preventive actions.
• Participates in the on-call production support rotation and may occasionally be required to work hours outside of the traditional work schedule.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and the ability to balance a large workload are essential.
• Strong customer focus and management of client expectations; ability to establish and maintain a high level of user trust and confidence in IT’s knowledge of and concern for users’ business needs. Shows signs of guiding and offering problem solving for groups and peers.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills. Ability to present and explain technical information to diverse types of audiences (management, users, vendors, technical staff) in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. Ability to write clear proposals and technical documents.
• Strong interpersonal skills at all levels of management and ability to motivate employees/teams to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems; excellent teamwork skills.
• Effectively managing small to large projects in a cross-functional environment.
• Work with long-established senior and lead staff and follow up on tasks.
• Communicate technical information in a concise and articulate manner.

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life.  To build a company that reflects the communities we serve, we believe that fostering a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to succeed will support our ongoing success.  Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.