Managed File Transfer Engineer (MFT)

Location: Boston, United States

Salary: $90,000–$130,000 base salary per year plus annual target bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial services firm providing specialist expertise, technology solutions, and client management services across Investor Services and Capital Partners.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and enhance enterprise Managed File Transfer infrastructure and Enterprise Fax services.
• Engineer secure, scalable, highly available source-to-destination file-transfer solutions and maintain technical standards and controls.
• Automate deployments, administration, validation, monitoring, and repetitive operations using PowerShell, Python, Shell, Ansible, and Linux tooling.
• Develop Splunk-based monitoring, health checks, dashboards, alerts, centralized logging, and diagnostic capabilities.
• Implement security standards for SFTP, HTTPS, AS2, encryption, authentication, certificates, privileged access, and least privilege.
• Lead platform upgrades, migrations, patching, disaster recovery activities, and Level 3 incident response, including root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience with middleware, Managed File Transfer, or closely related enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Experience engineering and supporting mission-critical production platforms, including installing, configuring, upgrading, patching, migrating, and troubleshooting MFT platforms.
• Strong understanding of MFT architecture and secure file-transfer design, with knowledge of SFTP, HTTPS, AS2, and FTP.
• Knowledge of LAN, VLAN, DMZ, firewalls, load balancing, and network segmentation.
• Hands-on experience with Windows Server and Linux.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using one or more of PowerShell, Python, Shell, and Ansible, including automated deployment, administration, validation, or operational processes.
• Experience with logging and observability platforms such as Splunk.
• Experience with SSL/TLS certificates, certificate lifecycle management, and certificate troubleshooting.
• Understanding of PGP encryption, authentication, privileged access, service accounts, and least-privilege security principles.
• Level 3 engineering support experience for business-critical technology services, along with strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Ability to coordinate across Engineering, Operations, Infrastructure, Networking, Information Security, and client-facing technology teams and support globally distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in a highly regulated or financial-services environment.
• Experience with VMware or comparable virtualization technologies.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Transact-SQL, with exposure to Oracle databases.
• Familiarity with .NET or C#.
• Experience with AutoSys or similar enterprise workload and job-scheduling technologies.
• Experience with enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery testing.
• Experience modernizing legacy infrastructure or file-transfer technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a long-established private financial-services partnership.
• Compensation includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing.
• Benefits include long-term savings, healthcare, income protection, professional development opportunities, and time off.
• Collaborative culture focused on problem-solving, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and employee contribution.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided for qualified applicants.