Network Engineer - Financial/Banking

Working in a thriving and vibrant environment with some of the latest technology, preferred candidates will come from a Financial/Banking environment with some Low Latency, HFT (High Frequency Trading) and Multicast experience.

Role:

• Deployment and configuration of Exchange networking infrastructure, including Switches, Routers, and Firewalls
• Working with products from Cisco, Arista, Fortinet
• Second-line support of exchange infrastructure
• Monitoring and improving the availability, resiliency, and performance of the exchange networking infrastructure.
• Monitoring platform capacity and identifying where we may have insufficient headroom
• Support of the Trading Platform Support and Exchange Operations teams to assist in daily exchange operations and resolving operational issues
• Working with the Security team to implement corporate security policies to ensure our IT environments adhere to internal and industry-standard policies and practices
• Contributing to out-of-hours market rehearsals and test sessions
• Propose and lead projects that improve our test and production environments
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Contribution to Exchange design and architecture discussions
• Work shifts and on-call as may be required

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in administering and deploying network solutions in similar industries - ideally with experience in a high-frequency or market-making environment
• Experience in configuring and managing resilient, low-latency environments is particularly welcome
• Demonstratable skills with standard network protocols: OSPF, BGP, BFD, VRRP, HSRP, RSTP
• Working knowledge of multicast architecture and protocols including PIM-SM and IGMP v2
• Experience in the configuration of multi-VRF environments
• Exposure to configuring the Zabbix monitoring platform or similar
• Familiarity with Firewall appliance management (Fortinet preferred)
• Hands-on experience with identifying and mitigating platform security issues and threats
• Very strong problem-solving skills and a sense of ownership of their domain
• Demonstrable continuous learning and acquisition of new skills
• Self-starter and independent, able to work within a team. Detail-oriented with a structured approach to managing workload
• Capable of interacting with different teams throughout the organization and with external clients to identify/resolve technical issues in a professional and effective manner
• Ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for processes and systems
• Experience in managing vendors
• Experience in proposing and evaluating new hardware and software solutions
• Strong command of spoken and written English
• Previous working experience in a Financial Services/FinTech environment, or similar high-pressure industry.