Senior Network Engineer

Global quantitative and systematic investment manager is looking for a network engineer to join their infrastructure team. This person will be responsible for architecting, engineering, and subsequent delivery oversight across all aspects of their network estate but with particular focus on their colocation infrastructure. The trading infrastructure is a combination of wide area connectivity and ultra-low latency trading infrastructures.

The team will deliver network solutions which enable full lifecycle management (architect, design, build, operate, retire) for their network components across core network switching, firewalls, load balancers, instrumentation/telemetry, network CMDB, and automation. It is crucial that this person must be able to demonstrate delivery of complex networks, at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation-driven mindset.

This person will gain deep knowledge of high-performance networking, including detailed knowledge of the product capabilities and roadmaps from the likes of Cisco, Arista and Fortinet. In addition, they will have direct experience of delivering and managing network solutions supporting corporate infrastructure and exchange specific ultra-low latency infrastructure with associated automation, telemetry and instrumentation frameworks.

• Ability to partner closely with the project management teams and work in a highly collaborative manner within the network team and the wider organization
• Capable of direct responsibility and accountability for a complex and high-performance network infrastructures
• Expert knowledge of delivering complex network architectures delivered via software driven and agile methodology
• Deep knowledge of delivering networks supporting high-performance and low latency computing architectures
• Deep knowledge of the network vendor ecosystem and be able to demonstrate building engineering relationships at senior layers with vendor product and engineering teams
• Knowledge of wide area network engineering focused on traffic prioritization and steering.
  
  It would be good to have experience of Segment Routing.