Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to establish successful partnerships with our internal product, engineering, operational and business stakeholders. This is a technical position for someone who can dive deep, design, engineer, build and test hybrid on premise and cloud-optimized network designs.


The role involves elements of design, engineering, automation and testing to produce infrastructure designs that align with business and architectural requirements.

As well as a proven technical background, the ideal candidate must be able to follow industry standard design, development and engineering frameworks incorporating planning, design, implementation, engineering, testing, operation and optimization. Be able to effectively participate in cross-functional meetings, clearly articulate infrastructure features and capabilities, translate business requirements into technical requirements into outcomes that are fit for purpose and use.

The role requires an experienced network engineer with the technical analysis, definition, design, construction, testing, installation and modification of properly engineered network and information systems to meet agreed business needs. An individual that analyses, researches and evaluates alternative solutions, and serves as subject matter experts between the business and IT organization. Ensuring network architecture supports the execution of critical business applications. Implements the balance between business and technology, provides consultancy into the project teams and defines the design and engineering governance function, signing off governance architecture / design against well-defined standards and best practices.


Day to day responsibilities


Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for network design and engineering and be involved in the development, engineering and testing of network solutions, hardware or software life cycle management. This often involves close collaboration with vendors' and cross functional technical teams. The role involves agile methods of working and technical or squad leadership for new network solutions and the introduction of new network features across the hybrid infrastructure estate.


Required Skills and Experience
• Deep and broad experience of delivering enterprise scale infrastructure in a similar role
• Responsible for analysis, functional design and engineering, and problem solving for software defined Infrastructure products.
• In-depth vendor and hands on technical knowledge across a wide range of Infrastructure cloud and network technologies and associated protocols
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco IOS, Cisco NXOS, IOS-XR, Cisco hardware, Juniper Hardware and JUNIOS software, Accedian Network Interface Nodes, Ixia test generator, IP Routing and Switching. Additionally, the candidate will have MPLS experience, working knowledge of IP Firewalls, IP Load balancers and IP Multicast
• Strong working knowledge and experience with: TCP/IP, Cisco IOS, Cisco NXOS, IOS-XR, Juniper JUNIOS, LAN/WAN, Service Provider/Extranet networks, Ethernet switching, including VPC/VSS, BGP, EIGRP, SNMP, L2/L3VPN, MPLS, QoS, Traffic Engineering, Network Service Orchestration and IPSEC
• Experience with NFV, Service orchestration (NSO) and programmable networks
• Experience with service automation and network transformation.
• Excellent written and presentation skills, evident customer service bias and strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and outstanding problem-solving ability
• Task and results oriented, manage multiple streams of competing work concurrently and maintain a focus on results while thinking like a customer
• Experience with developing standards and network testing, software and hardware certification and qualification, writing test plans and producing network test reports.
• Experience as a network design engineer with hands-on Cisco IP Routing/Switching design and implementation in a service provider environment.
• Knowledge around JIRA (epic, story, task tracking, scrums-based delivery), Confluence and Gitlab tooling is essential
• Experience of delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Ansible/Terraform
• Broad knowledge of cloud services - Azure, AWS, GCP
• Excellent written English, presentation skills with a strong attention to detail
• Task and results oriented ability to manage multiple streams of competing work concurrently and maintain a focus on results while thinking like a customer.
• Excellent problem-solving ability and organization skills with a focus on goals and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desired
• Financial Services Industry experience
• Real-time and low latency market data experience
• Degree in Engineering or Infrastructure Science
• Service orchestration, observability and monitoring platform experience
• Working knowledge of a Programming Language (preferably Python)
• Agile tools (Jira, GIT amongst other DevOps principles)
• AWS, Azure, GCP Certification