Senior Network Engineer
Experience:
A Minimum of 7 years in the Financial Industry, preferably in a Trading environment, is required for this position. The candidate must have experience in the Architecture, Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of Trading-related Network infrastructure, such as: Market Data Distribution Networks, low-latency, ultra-low-latency and high frequency trading networks.
General Competency:
- The candidate must be highly motivated.
- Willing to work in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
- The candidate must have good communication skills.
- The candidate must be customer focused.
- Ability to work effectively and productively with others, and still comfortable working independently.
Core Technical Competency:
- Architect, Design, Implement, and Troubleshoot Networks for different needs in the financial industry.
- A solid background designing, managing, and troubleshooting diverse multi-protocol, switched and routed enterprise networks.
- The candidate must be good at documentation in general. Competent with working with network diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
- Expert level knowledge and experience with BGP and other routing protocols in order to be able to design and implement various connectivity solutions to clients, vendors, and the management of the Trading network environment.
- Expert level knowledge and experience with Multicast routing protocols in order to be able design and implement Market data connectivity solutions to our Market data exchange vendors.
- Ability to troubleshoot network connectivity issues with both external and internal clients.
- Heavy hands-on experience with multiple internetworking devices
- Strong ability to use packet tracing technologies to troubleshoot network issues.
- Expert level troubleshooting knowledge with multiple vendor routing and forwarding architectures to resolve possible production issues or design behavior issues.
- Strong knowledge of TCP, UDP, and higher layer protocols in order to understand application performance and troubleshooting application issues on the network.
- Expert level troubleshooting knowledge with multiple vendor routing and forwarding architectures to resolve possible production issues or design behavior issues.
Specific Technology Expertise:
Strong and extensive knowledge of complex protocols and technologies:
Routing Protocols:
BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2, Static Routing, route-redistribution, summarization, Policy-Routing.
Switching:
Trunking, spanning- tree, dot1q, VLANs, VTP, Ethernet switching, multi-layer switching, vPC, MLAG.
Multicast:
PIM, IGMP, MSDP
Network Services:
TCP/IP, UDP, HSRP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, NAT, TACACS, SSH, NTP, SYSLOG, TELNET,
Network Management/Automation:
SNMP, SYSLOG, IPSLA, NETFLOW, Network Telemetry, and Network automation tools.
Security:
IPSEC, VPNS, Firewalls.
Packet Analysis:
PICO CNEs, Wireshark, sniffers, packet captures, and packet decodes, Market Data packet decodes, FIX packet decodes.
Vendor specific technology expertise:
- Arista 7150s, 7050s, 7060s, 7500 series switches.
- Cisco switches and Routers: Cisco 4900M, Cisco Nexus3064, Nexus 3548, Cisco 3750, Cisco 6500, Cisco 3800, Cisco 7200, Cisco 7600, Cisco ASR series routers, Nexus 9000 series switches.
- Fortinet Firewalls and Technologies
- Juniper Netscreen and SRX Firewalls.
- Corvil CNE-2100, 2110, 2300, 6300 7300, 8600, 8800 and CMCs.
- SevOne SNMP Management system.
- HPNA Network Automation system.
Education:
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required.
Industry Certifications:
Cisco or similar industry certifications will be a big plus
Accomplishments:
Candidates should provide some key job-related accomplishments in their current or previous roles.
