Join our prestigious Global Investment Bank client as a contract CCIE level Network Engineer, the client is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking, and financing activities. Its clients include corporates, governments, and banks, with a growing footprint in the investor segment.
Required Skills & Qualifications:- CCIE qualification preferred (candidates without CCIE who can demonstrate equivalent expertise will be considered).
- Experience with Ansible and network automation.
- Experience working in highly available latency-sensitive network environments utilizing multiple network (switching & routing) and security (firewall, Web Gateway & LTM) technologies.
- Experience in capturing requirements from the business and working with multiple technical teams to identify solutions that balance business, security, availability, and resiliency requirements.
- Experience with market brokers & direct market connectivity.
- Implementing designs into the production environment under Change Control.
- A sound knowledge of Arista architectures and operating systems with hands-on design and configuration experience.
- Confident knowledge and exposure of core routing protocols, OSPF and BGP, and IP transmission modes, Unicast and Multicast.
- Low-level log & packet analysis experience is a must.
- Comfortable and capable of multitasking
- Implement network-as-code for the new infrastructure deployment and upskill the rest of the team on automation.
- Build professional relationships and work with the global support to ensure efficient communication between corporate and trading networks.
- Produce HLD and LLD documentation with continuous review to ensure accuracy.
- Provide a handover into Operations, local and offshore, of new implementations with regular knowledge-sharing sessions to upskill and address gaps.
- Act as a senior escalation point for team members and internal teams for incidents, requests, and changes.
- Work closely with strategic technology partners to determine software release planning, budget submissions, and provide input for business case preparation.
- Work with market vendors to agree on connectivity details to a standard, oversee implementation, testing, etc.
- Ensure proper monitoring and capacity of the global network.
- Plan and oversee work in remote sites (communicating with and managing remote hands).
- Work with autonomy and independence but within the framework of a global support and engineering structure.
- Maintain a close technology watch to bring innovation to markets connectivity and trading application platforms.