Network Specialist

Sector:FinTech/Financial Services

Salary/Rate:£130,000 - £150,000

Job type:Perm

Town/City:City of London

County:London

Job ref:NPS45ljDVZ

Post Date:18. 10. 2024

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Craig Mullen

Director

0203 479 4931

craig@ncounter.co.uk

About the Role

Network Specialist

Job Title: Network Specialist

Location: City of London

Company: Global Investment Management Firm

About the Firm: A global investment management firm, renowned for its scientific approach to systematic and quantitative trading, is collaborating with Ncounter to recruit a highly skilled Network Specialist. This technology-driven company relies on cutting-edge, low-latency infrastructure, scientific research, and compute farms to maintain its leading position in the financial industry. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in delivering optimal trading and research platforms through the design, implementation, and management of advanced network solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Implementation of scalable, deterministic network solutions in a highly available multi-vendor enterprise / co-location environment. Have a heavy influence on the design, optimization, implementation, monitoring, support, and documentation of network infrastructure. Collaborate closely with stakeholders, software engineers, and other infrastructure teams to deliver state-of-the-art trading platforms. Go-to for Level 2 and Level 3 support, managing escalation and correction of performance and availability issues.

Required:

Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science and CCNP certification or higher. Extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols, including: Unicast: OSPF, BGP, NAT, IPSEC and GRE, VRF’s Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP, SSM Switching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLAN Monitoring: LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, Prometheus Security: AAA (Radius/TACACS), control planes, device hardening.

Preferred Skills:

Experience in enterprise or co-location environments with Cisco and Arista product exposure. Preferably use of Cisco’s Unified Communication, Collaboration and Voice technologies. Cyber (Palo Alto, Fortinet) and Cloud (AWS, GCP). Datacenter/office network infrastructure buildout experience with scripting and buildout expertise (Python and Ansible preferred). Proficiency with network diagnostic and performance tools (netcat, tcptrace, Wireshark, etc.).

This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment, where your expertise in network technologies will directly impact the performance of global trading systems. You will be instrumental in designing, developing, and testing infrastructure solutions, ensuring seamless integration and reusability across the firm's global operations.

If you have the experience and passion to excel in this challenging role, we encourage you to apply. Join us in shaping the future of systematic and quantitative trading through cutting-edge technology and infrastructure solutions.

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