Job Title: Lead Network Engineer

Fully Remote Contract

Experience: 7-10 Years.

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, Ultra Low-latency and low-latency 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.
• 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.

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:

Wireshark, sniffers, packet captures, and packet decodes, Market Data packet decodes, FIX packet decodes.

Vendor specific technology expertise:

• Cisco switches and Routers: Cisco 4900M, Cisco Nexus3064, Nexus 3548, Cisco 3750, Cisco 6500, Cisco 3800, Cisco 7200, Cisco 7600,
• Arista 7150, 7050, 7500 series
• Fortinet Firewalls and Technologies
• Juniper Netscreen and SRX Firewalls.
• Corvil CNE-2100, 2110, 2300, 6300 7300, 8600, 8800 and CMCs.
• SevOne SNMP Management system.

Education:

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required.

Industry Certifications:

Cisco or similar industry certifications will be a big plus