Principal Network Engineer

Description

The company is a global provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, headquartered in the United Kingdom.

It operates in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and its history goes back more than 300 years.

About 25,000 people work there, with over half in Asia Pacific, across 65 countries. Its ticker symbol matches its short name.

This is a high-skills network technical lead role responsible for keeping every platform, network, application and service in the group's ecosystem reliable.

You will provide fourth-line support to the network products and services functions and keep the global network stable and able to adapt.

Your main focus is building software automation that raises the uptime of digital platforms and their delivery pipelines.

The company is committed to sustainability and helps customers reach their own sustainability goals. Its charity gives grants to community groups, and colleagues can fundraise and volunteer for it.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain systems, software and applications across several domains, aiming for the highest quality.
• Make technical design and change decisions on your own and lead the workload.
• Analyse data and business needs and turn them into technical requirements that match infrastructure and network capacity.
• Write reporting documents that meet internal and external standards.
• Work with other business areas to plan and coordinate capacity and network upgrades that meet service level objectives.
• Lead upgrades where needed, coordinating internal teams and third parties.
• Keep documentation accurate and monitor system performance to support business activity and continuous improvement.
• Help roll out emerging engineering patterns across development teams.
• Coordinate design work across the infrastructure and network domain as solutions take shape.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in an IT-related field, which is essential.
• Significant experience in technology-focused roles, which is crucial.
• Proven years of experience with network products and services, ideally on Cisco, Juniper and Arista, while working toward further accreditation, which is important.
• Expertise in LAN, WAN, HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP and OSPF, which is vital.
• Familiarity with load balancing, TCP/IP and multicast in internet environments, which is important.
• Excellent knowledge of packet analysis and packet capture tools, which supports operational efficiency.
• Proficiency in Python and Ansible, which helps streamline tasks.
• Strong written and spoken English, plus client management skills, to collaborate well.
• Highly desirable: extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols, with a preference for CCIE certification.
• Valuable: previous roles in architecture or engineering.
• Beneficial: knowledge of multicast concepts, including IGMP, RP and PIM.
• Advantageous: familiarity with low-latency technologies used in the financial sector.
• Valuable: experience with data centre networking, including SDN, Cisco ACI, VxLAN and related technologies.
• Beneficial: understanding of cloud environments and network security practices.
• Advantageous: proficiency in service management processes, ideally with ITIL knowledge.
• Valuable: exposure to the financial sector and its technologies.

Conditions

This is a manager-level position.

The company is an equal opportunities employer that does not discriminate on protected grounds and makes reasonable accommodation for religious practices and for mental health or physical disability needs.

Benefits

• Benefits are tailored to you and cover healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.