Context and Environment

Swift provides a global financial communications platform, standards, products, and services to over 11,000 customers in 215 countries and territories. Our employees are the foundation of this success. Swift has a unique corporate mind-set, where diversity, personal development and networking are actively encouraged. We believe you will appreciate our office culture, which fosters excellence through collaboration and interaction in a community-driven environment.

If you want to be part of our dynamic, multicultural institution with over 2,400 employees of 75 nationalities in 26 offices worldwide, explore the vast opportunities, rewards and internationally competitive packages waiting for you at Swift.

Standards are a cornerstone of the financial industry. They provide a common language for international financial messaging that is unambiguous and machine-readable, enabling efficient automation, reducing costs and mitigating risks. Swift’s Standards and Market Infrastructures group develops financial messaging standards and supporting products and services for the community.

The migration to ISO 20022, supporting richer and more structured data, is central to Swift’s strategy to enable an instant, frictionless, interoperable and inclusive future for payments. The need for applications and services supporting this standard is now more critical than ever. Today is your opportunity to contribute to this evolution.

The Test Sparring Partner (TSP), developed by the Standards Value-Added Services team, is a service that accelerates adoption of Swift solutions by giving customers a revolutionary way to test and validate their implementations before going live. TSP provides configurable test cases, guided execution flows and message-level validation aligned with Swift rulebooks and product requirements. It supports product teams, professional services and customers with clear narratives, execution guidelines and operational configuration to ensure consistent, high-quality onboarding and usage across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a System Administrator (OPS) to keep TSP’s Windows and Red Hat servers up to date, while progressively migrating away from Windows.

You will:

• Support both PAC (qualification) and LIVE environments.
• Maintain systems at the latest supported OS level.
• Use Ansible playbooks for Red Hat systems.
• Regularly upgrade the COTS used by TSP in line with Swift’s Security Excellence Programme.
• Monitor and renew certificates between TSP modules.
• Plan and open firewall rules to ensure connectivity between TSP servers.
• Install and patch TSP modules, first in PAC and then in the LIVE environment.
• Test and qualify new TSP functionalities or fixes in PAC.
• Migrate systems from Windows to Red Hat.
• Ensure operational procedures are followed, supporting compliance with internal control frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience with Windows Server administration.
• Proficient in certificate creation, deployment, monitoring, and renewal.
• Experience with RDBMS; MySQL is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Delivery‑oriented and proactive, with a hands‑on mindset.
• Curious and open to change, with an interest in continuous improvement.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Education

• Degree in IT

Experience

• Young graduates welcome. From 3 to 5 years of relevant experience as a systems administrator on Windows Server and Red Hat is a plus.

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact [email protected] or indicate this in your application.

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All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.