Senior Engineer, IT Operations

Job Purpose Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) is a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses, data, and listings services. We connect businesses around the world to unique opportunities in markets that drive the global economy. We are a diverse and inclusive company that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. ICE team members work across departments and traditional boundaries to innovate and respond to industry demand. A successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment, demonstrating strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities and the highest degree of professionalism.   ICE Endpoint Solutions is responsible for every endpoint, physical and virtual, globally, which currently accounts for 20,000 devices. Master images, golden templates, operating system updates and upgrades, security patches, software delivery, endpoint configuration, and compliance controls fall within the team’s remit. Endpoint Solutions works closely with multiple IT groups to ensure physical and virtual endpoints remain secure, compliant, stable, and operationally effective.   Endpoint Solutions - Engineering implements and improves the technologies used to manage, maintain, secure, and ensure compliance across ICE’s global physical and virtual endpoint estate. The EPS-Engineering team stays current with industry trends and recommends new platforms, configuration changes, and operational improvements that support an efficient, secure endpoint environment. This role has a particular focus on Horizon-based virtual desktop infrastructure, including design, administration, optimization, and operational support.   Primary Focus: Support and improve ICE’s virtual desktop estate. The successful candidate should bring strong virtualization experience and practical Horizon knowledge across desktop lifecycle management, image maintenance, application delivery, user access, performance troubleshooting, and operational support.

Assist in the planning, design, and implementation of management systems and infrastructure. Design, maintain, and support enterprise virtual desktop infrastructure, with a focus on Horizon-based desktop delivery. Manage golden images, desktop pools, Instant Clone lifecycle, entitlements, and application delivery workflows. Troubleshoot VDI performance, availability, access, profile, connectivity, and user experience issues across the full stack. Work with infrastructure, network, security, identity, and application teams to ensure the VDI platform remains secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally efficient. Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours and weekend support. Mentor teammates and partner teams by sharing knowledge, guidance, and practical support. Stay current with supported technologies and identify opportunities to apply new features to business needs. Take projects from idea to completion independently, with guidance where required.   Knowledge and Experience Virtualization / Horizon Infrastructure - Strong experience designing, administering, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise VDI environments, with hands-on familiarity with VMware Horizon / Omnissa Horizon. Experience should include Connection Servers, Instant Clones, golden image management, desktop pools, entitlements, user experience optimization, profile management, Unified Access Gateway, and vSphere integration. vSphere / Virtual Infrastructure - Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere concepts, including clusters, hosts, resource management, templates, snapshots, storage, networking, and virtual machine lifecycle management. VDI Monitoring and Performance - Experience monitoring VDI health and performance, including log analysis, session performance, resource contention, login times, protocol behavior, storage latency, capacity trends, and user experience. Workstation OS - 5+ years of experience managing and optimizing Windows 11 in both physical