Network Engineer; SME – Network Operations

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethics.

Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools.

Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses—and to our own.

The Network Operations Team is responsible for troubleshooting, maintenance, and level 3 problem resolution activities of large WAN and LAN environments. Cisco & Arista hardware is utilized in our fast-paced and challenging operational environment. No direct administration of Windows/Linux systems is involved – this role is strictly networking focused and requires in-depth knowledge of network support technologies, tools, and operational procedures.

However, familiarity with UNIX and Linux command structure is a necessary. This position’s primary emphasis is problem identification for routing and switching issues, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.

Network Operations (Net Ops) coordinates with development, engineering, and other Technical Operations (Tech Ops) teams to support the environment and implement network configuration changes including config scripting for new access connectivity through WANs, LANs, and firewalls. Net Ops maintains network environments in multiple geographically distinct data centers and dozens of globally dispersed enterprise locations. The team focuses on incident management activities and adheres to very strict configuration standards.

This position requires excellent verbal and written communication skills required to relay information to management, adjacent support teams, and downstream customer groups. The ability to create concise documentation of issues, compile statistics and related data, as well as build diagrams and reports on network performance is required.

We are looking for a Networks Engineer (SME) to join our team. A broad knowledge of all major networking topics is critical.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in the enterprise environment (preferably in a Financial Services Firm), Technology vendor or systems integrator in the role of designing or implementing and providing operational support to large scale networks. The ability to work both independently and as a team member is essential. Strong communication and presentation skills are imperative to be able explain network design, articulate risk, and facilitate decision making.

Expert Level Technical

Skills Required:

• Ethernet technologies: STP, 802.1Q, VPC, Multilayer Switching;
  Leaf-Spine IP Fabric

• IP Routing: RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPBGP, TCP/IP

• VxLAN design and troubleshooting

• Platform knowledge on Cisco Switching & Routing Platforms

• Platform knowledge on Arista Switching platforms

• Familiarity with JIRA for project and task management, specifically work in an Agile environment

Additional Qualifications:

Candidate must possess 10+ years of demonstrable experience in the following areas:

• A firm understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 troubleshooting and incident resolution methods

• Experience maintaining, upgrading, and configuring Cisco…