Network Engineer - Hegde Fund
Posted 1 week ago by RLS Search on JobServe
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
London Mayfair, UK
Summary: The role of Network Engineer at a leading global Hedge Fund involves engineering and operations for network security and load balancing within a high-performance financial environment. The position requires working onsite five days a week in London as part of a team focused on maintaining extreme uptime and utilizing advanced network technologies. The candidate will be responsible for a mix of engineering, operations, and project implementation across various network aspects. Strong experience in financial services and the ability to adapt to high-pressure situations are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineering, operations and implementation role in load balancing enterprise networks.
- Mix of engineering, operations and project implementation across all aspects of the network, including datacenter, desktop connectivity, corporate Wi-Fi, remote offices, and WAN/MAN.
- Serve as an escalation point for critical issues. Help connect the global team to key network challenges and needs for the Europe region.
- Implementation of global standards and participation into the network automation framework for deployment and operations.
- L2/L3 operational support experience with a desire to train more junior engineers and contribute to operational process improvement.
Key Skills:
- Ability to work in a high pressure environment and handle when the direction changes.
- Experience with IP Connectivity.
- Arista.
- Switches.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS.
- Scripting in either Ansible or Python.
- Experience with current versions of enterprise networks (leaf/spine), route/switch, Cisco, Arista, Wi-Fi, WAN engineering and enterprise QoS.
- In depth understanding of SSL & HTTP protocols.
- Scripting and programming knowledge with a slant towards network automation specifically with Python or Ansible.
- Expert knowledge of BGP routing protocol.
- Extensive experience with IP Connectivity.
- Knowledge and experience of BGP routing protocol and its uses in leaf/spine topology.
- Some exposure to Cloud (AWS) networking is beneficial.
- Experience with network performance management & monitoring technologies such as Opsramp and Kentik.
- Experience with Meraki.
Salary (Rate): 600
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT