Network Engineer - Cisco - Fortinet - Low Latency - Exchange - Financial Services
Excellent opportunity opens for a skilled, hands-on Network Engineer strong across Cisco & Fortinet to join a leading Financial Services entity's London office. Joining the Infrastructure team, you will be reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure, working closely with developers, project stake holders and operations, to build-out the network infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
* Provision of Exchange infrastructure, including switches, routers and firewalls
* Working with products from Cisco, Arista, FS.com, Fortinet
* Second-line support of exchange infrastructure
* Provision of monitoring, management and alerting of Exchange infrastructure
* Provision of support to the Exchange Operations team to assist in daily exchange operations and resolving operational issues
* Working with the Security team to implement corporate security policies to ensure our IT environments adhere to internal and industry-standard policies and practices
* Propose and lead projects that improve our production environments
* Creation of technical documentation
* Contribution to Exchange design and architecture discussions
* Working shifts may be required, as may on-call support
Requirements:
* 5+ years administering and deploying network solutions
* Experience with configuring and managing resilient, low-latency environments is particularly welcome
* Demonstrable skills with standard network protocols: OSPF, BGP, BFD, VRRP, HSRP, RSTP
* Working knowledge of multicast architecture and protocols including PIM-SM and IGMP v2
* Experience of configuration of multi-VRF environments
* Exposure to configuring the Zabbix monitoring platform or similar
* Familiarity with firewall appliance management (Fortinet preferred)
* Capable of interacting with different teams throughout the organization and with external clients to identify/resolve technical issues in a professional and effective manner
* Ability to write clear, concise and comprehensive documentation for processes and systems
* Experience of managing vendors
* Experience of proposing and evaluating new hardware and software solutions
* Strong command of spoken and written English
* Previous working experience in an Financial Services/FinTech environment, or similar high-pressure industry.
Interested? Please Apply!
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