Sr. Network Engineer

Sr. Network Engineer III

CIB IT Production is a transversal function which provides all core technologies to all businesses of the bank in the Americas.

The Network Engineer will have responsibility for the oversight, support and management of BNP Paribas distributed LAN / WAN environments in North America which includes market access and trading infrastructure with multicast. The Network Engineer must possess an understanding of a complex combination of various technologies and operating systems and be able to design and implement the network solutions. Some regional travel and the ability to provide 7x24 support is also required.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform 1st, 2nd, 3rd level support for the WIFI, corporate LAN, MAN and WAN Infrastructure
• Work with production architecture group to gather requirements, design and deploy network infrastructure
• Work with system support team members in troubleshooting complex, cross platform issues
• Evaluate emerging network technologies and align their benefits with the business strategy of BNPP
• Monitoring service management system to ensure operational issues are being managed
• Ensure standard practices are followed within the team, including security, and other corporate IT policies
• Closely link with his or her counterparts to ensure definition and strict adherence to technology standards, both local production and Global
• Provide day-to-day support of existing Network infrastructure
• Design/Implement new infrastructure on a per-project basis
• Proactively recommend projects based on monitoring, prior expertise, hardware knowledge.
• Participate in On-Call rotation schedule for after-hours escalation
• Working experience with optical systems specifically ADVA supporting 10G, 40G, 100G and FC
• Detailed knowledge of Cisco products including the Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching platforms, Cisco ISR and ASR routing platforms and Juniper EX switches
• Exercise proficiency with ITP Policies and Procedures, including Change Control, timesheets, etc.

Minimum required qualifications:

• Experience supporting market access and trading infrastructure environments.
• Thorough knowledge of Network Management products and proficiency with ITP-standard monitoring tools
• Thorough understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals and a detailed knowledge of networking technologies such as Metro Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, DWDM, TDM
• Thorough understanding of routing protocols such as EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, IP Multicast, PIM, IGMP, DHCP, and DNS