
Vice President, Software Engineer
Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive health and architecture reviews of Axway SecureTransport environments.
- Identify and remediate single points of failure, anti-patterns, end-of-life components, and security issues.
- Define and execute a remediation roadmap aligned with Axway-supported reference architecture.
- Improve deployment simplicity, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore processes, and operational resilience.
- Harden DMZ and perimeter configurations, including secure relay patterns and reduced inbound exposure.
- Patch, upgrade, or re-platform components and evaluate containerized deployment options.
- Establish monitoring and alerting for transfer flows, failed transfers, and anomalies.
- Create architecture diagrams, configuration standards, operational runbooks, and other documentation.
- Lead knowledge-transfer and shadowing sessions for the internal team.
Requirements
- Current Axway SecureTransport certification through Axway University or the SecureTransport product line is mandatory and will be validated.
- At least five years of hands-on Axway SecureTransport experience, including deployment, configuration, clustering, and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated experience stabilizing and remediating complex SecureTransport environments.
- Deep knowledge of SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, AS2, PeSIT, PKI, certificate management, and partner onboarding.
- Experience designing high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience for enterprise managed file transfer platforms.
- Proficiency with Linux administration, networking, DMZ patterns, and database management.
- Strong documentation and knowledge-transfer skills.
- Financial-services or regulated high-availability environment experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with containerized SecureTransport deployment, Axway Transfer CFT, and Axway Sentinel is advantageous.
- Experience integrating SecureTransport with enterprise monitoring, scheduling, and ITSM tools is desirable.
Benefits
- Compensation is listed at $100-$125 per hour.