Information Technology Manager (Hands on)

IT Manager / Senior Systems Administrator (Hands-On Player-Coach) $23B Hedge Fund | NYC with travel to CT | 100% Onsite, 5 Days $200–250K base | $325–350K total comp | US Citizens OnlyA long-tenured IT leader is retiring, and this firm needs a hands-on player-coach to step in. It is not a people-manager seat. You'll still do the senior systems work every day while leading and mentoring a small desktop support team. The environment is about 85% Windows and 15% Linux, supporting roughly 170 people.What you'll ownActive Directory and Entra ID: group design, service accounts, SPNs, app registrations, Graph API access and credential rotationMicrosoft 365 and Exchange Online: mail routing, mail security, DLP, retention, Teams, SharePoint and OneDriveVMware vSphere and the Windows Server estate, plus physical servers (racking, cabling, diagnostics, part swaps)Windows and Samba file servers: permissions, quotas, capacity and migrationsNetworking and firewalls: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, wireless, certificates and monitoringSecurity: endpoint protection, MFA, conditional access, phishing simulations and alert responseIT controls in an audited environment: monthly access reviews, change management, exceptions and DDQ supporteDiscovery and legal hold searches with Legal and ComplianceAvaya PBX support and the move to an outsourced voice providerLicensing, renewals and vendor management (M365, Adobe, Box, Bloomberg, Verizon and more)Server room power and cooling: UPS, PDUs, HVAC and coordination with building vendorsPowerShell and Python automationLeading and mentoring the desktop support team and serving as the top technical escalation pointWhat you bring7+ years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure experienceDeep Windows Server, AD, M365 and MFA knowledgeReal experience with service accounts, Entra app registrations and credential managementVMware vSphereA secure email gateway such as Proofpoint or MimecastEndpoint and data-governance tools such as CrowdStrike or VaronisStrong PowerShellExperience running IT controls in a regulated or audited settingExperience leading projects with MSPs and vendors from start to finishNice to haveFinancial services backgroundeDiscovery or legal hold experienceBloomberg administration and entitlementsAvaya PBX experienceAWS or AzureAnsible or PowerShell DSCThe details100% onsite in NYC, with travel to CT and the firm's Westchester DR site as needed (transportation covered)Occasional after-hours work for patching and recovery testingUS citizens onlyIf you're a doer who also likes to lead, message me directly.#ITManager #SystemsAdministrator #HedgeFund #NYCJobs #ActiveDirectory #VMware #Microsoft365 #Hiring