Senior Network Engineer- Extranet

Company: Infinity Consulting Solutions
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

This role is a temp to hire role that will convert full time after 9-12 months

This engineer will be expected to be onsite in Jersey City 2x per week.

Seeking a senior network engineer to join the Network Architecture team. You will provide thorough, responsive service to all users and enjoy facing technical challenges with a keen interest in root-cause analysis.

The individual needs to show a keen interest in technology and have experience working in a financial services firm. This role requires an individual with good communication and interpersonal skills that can establish and maintain an excellent relationship with technology and finance teams.


Primary Responsibilities:

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• Participate in network architecture development from idea to plan, design, and integration for the relevant network environments to meet stakeholder requirements
  
• Own the delivery of a variety of concurrent projects in varying scale. Management of high-visibility network initiatives affecting any trading venue connectivity
  
• Work independently and as part of a team to train operations and deployment engineers on new network designs
  
• Provide troubleshooting assistance/escalation to support teams, as needed, for critical production issues and incident management and reporting. Urgently analyze and troubleshoot production impacting issues
  
• Assist with complex moves/adds/changes to the environment, as needed
  
• Work with technology operations managers to develop trending analyses and eliminate recurring incidents
  
• Support infrastructure teams in regression testing functionality and stress testing from a network perspective
  
  
  
  Required Background:
  
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  • 10+ years solid knowledge and experience of network routing and switching technologies, multicast expertise, public cloud networking, and network hardware
    
  • Cisco platforms including but not limited to Nexus Series (5k/7k/9k), Cisco ACI platform, Catalyst Switches, ISR Routers, Cisco SDWAN and network management tools
    
  • Expert understanding of IP multicast routing. Experience working with large trading floor technologies, managing, troubleshooting and deployment of large-scale multicast architecture for trading applications
    
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with other infrastructure teams across the firm, globally. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and can adapt to changing business needs
    
  • Ability to impact operations and effect change without being confrontational, highly self-motivated, and capable to work under pressure. Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, detail oriented
    
  • Self-disciplined, self-starter who can provide leadership and mentor others while resolving complex incidents
    
  • Detailed knowledge of network, transport and application protocols, BGP, MPLS, EIGRP, OSPF, VPC, 802.1Q, ether-channel, STP, RSTP, VTP, QoS, ACLs, VxLAN, TCP/UDP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, SIP, RTP
    
  • Extremely proficient with network management, monitoring and troubleshooting tools (sniffer, syslog, NetFlow, TCPDUMP, Wireshark)
    
  • Significant experience with Palo Alto firewalls, F5 load balancers, SD-WAN architectures and WAN automation technologies. Good understanding of remote access technologies including Citrix, IPSec VPN
    
  • Understanding of public clouds AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle
    
  • Expert level Knowledge of wireless technologies standards and protocols. Cisco WLAN and Client specific experience desired
    
  • Ability to analyze complex problems, propose effective solutions, understand, and apply business vision / direction. Ability to be called upon 24/7 in case of emergencies
    
  • Working knowledge of ITL processes, specifically Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management
    
    
    
    Desired Characteristics
    
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    • Experience implementing low latency network environments
      
    • Experience with Cisco Client for network security
      
      
      
      
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      • Experience implementing large scale multitenant datacenters, Network Access Control and network segmentation solutions
        
      • Experience with network automation using Python, JSON and workflow using solutions such as Itential, Ansible and Terraform
        
      • CCIE, CISSP certifications
        
        
        

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