IT Network Automation Engineer

Job: IT Network Automation Engineer

London, UK

Hybrid working – 3 days on-site

Full Time – both perm and contract available (sponsorship possible)

Overview

Our client; a major global financial institution is looking for an IT Network Automation Engineer to join the UK Networks team that is accountable for the corporate network in the UK and for the global electronic trading network.

Following years of ad-hoc growth our client has received significant investment towards his latency sensitive electronic trading network allowing him to embark on a project to refresh the hardware and using the opportunity to re-design the architecture to be more efficient and scalable.

The project is working toward ambitious timescales and will require significant focus.

Our client is looking for an experienced Network Automation Engineer with a proven record of delivering and maintaining a stable network environment. Consultant must be able to communicate clearly, have an excellent understanding of a trading infrastructure and be comfortable dealing directly with developers and application support to determine and understand how their applications interact with the infrastructure to help ensure successful implementation and migration to the new architecture.

You will be part of a small team that is agile and multi-skilled and will ensure the London and Trading networks operate in a stable manner, using your expertise to optimize the functionality, performance and security, making improvements when needed.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• • CCIE qualification preferred (candidates without CCIE who can demonstrate equivalent expertise will be considered)
  • Experience with Ansible and network automation
  • Experience of working in highly available latency sensitive network environment utilizing multiple network (switching & routing) and security (firewall, Web Gateway & LTM) technologies
  • Experience in capturing requirements from the business and working with multiple technical teams to identify solutions that balance business, security, availability and resiliency requirements.
  • Experience with market brokers & direct market connectivity.
  • Implementing of designs into the production environment under Change Control.
  • A sound knowledge of Arista architectures and operating systems with hands on design and configuration experience.
  • Confident knowledge and exposure of core routing protocols, OSPF and BGP, and IP transmission modes, Unicast and Mulitcast.
  • Low level log & packet analysis experience is a must.
  • Comfortable and capable to multitask.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• • Implement network-as-code for the new infrastructure deployment and upskill the rest of the team on automation.
  • Building a professional relationship and working with the global support to ensure efficient communication between corporate and trading networks.
  • Producing HLD and LLD documentation with continuous review to ensure accuracy.
  • Provide a handover into Operations, local and offshore, of new implementations with regular KS sessions to upskill and address gaps
  • Act as a senior escalation point for team members and internal teams for incidents, requests and changes.
  • Working closely with strategic technology partners to determine software release planning, budget submissions and provide input for business case preparation.
  • Working with market vendors to agree connectivity details to a standard, oversee implementation, testing etc.
  • Ensuring proper monitoring and capacity of the global network.
  • Planning and overseeing work in remote sites (communicating with and managing remote hands).
  • Work with autonomy and independence but within the framework of a global support and engineering structure
  • Close technology watch to bring innovation to markets connectivity and trading application platforms.

WHO WE ARE

Quanteam Group is a Consulting firm specialized in the Capital Markets industry, in Paris, London, Krakow, Brussels, New York and North Africa.

Since 2007, our 800 consultants provide major clients (Corporate & Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Brokers and Insurance Companies) with expertise in several projects such as Financial Engineering, Quantitative Research, Regulatory Implementation, IT Transformation & Innovation.

The firm mainly takes part in:

• • Business consulting: Quantitative research, Risk management (e.g. Market risk, credit risk, counterparty risk), Banking regulations (e.g. Basel III, Solvency II, FATCA, EMIR, MiFID), Pricing & Valuation, Organizational Transformation & Process Improvement.
  • IT & Information systems consulting: Business Analysis, Project Management, Change management, Front Office Support (functional and technical), Development (e.g C++, Python, C#, Java, VBA), Financial Software (e.g. Sophis, Murex, Summit, Calypso), IT Transformation & Innovation.

As part of Quanteam Group, Quanteam UK & PL has today more than 80 consultants, working for major Capital Markets institutions in London and Krakow.