Lead Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior AssociateLSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is looking for a Senior Associate to provide ongoing support and reliability of the LSEG ecosystem (Platforms, Networks, Applications, Services, and Websites). The focus of this role is to provide 2nd line support to the Operations and Project Delivery (Implementation) functions, ensuring operational stability and ongoing adaptability of the LSEG global network.

Key responsibilities are creating and maintaining software automation that provides the reliability and availability of digital platforms and their software delivery pipelines.What You Will Be Doing:Supports the technology lifecycle through the develop, build and maintenance of systemsAdminister LSEG network services, ensuring applications and services perform against baselines levelsMonitors network services, focusing on availability, while identifying improvement opportunitiesHandles service providers (telcos), third parties and partners as requiredMakes technical design and amendment decisions and independently handles workloadsCrafts, reviews and maintains documentation, compliant with LSEG (industry) standardsDefines lifecycle management strategies for hardware and software, including capacity considerationsSupports the deployment of emerging engineering patterns across development teamsTranslates business requirements into technical (network) requirements, through analysis of dataCollaborates to multiple projects in parallel providing regular updates to multiple partnersBuilds and validates technical requirements, with emphasis on performance, resilience and operabilityGets involved into design work in the infrastructure and network domain, providing innovative solutionsSupport day to day network operational issues and lead enterprise network.What You Will Bring:7–10 years of network engineering experience, including ownership of end-to-end network fix, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.Significant experience of routing and switching and Routing protocols (CCNA/CCNP preferred)Significant experience in network operations, project delivery and engineeringSolid experience in managing enterprise networksGood in handling DDI/infloblox(L1 Support)Excellent in handling and leading Wireless infra.Significant experience with network technologies, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet & F5 – at least 2 of these.Excellent network skills, including HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP and OSPFBasic multicast skills, including IGMP, RP and PIMBasic knowledge of firewall technologies, including next generation features & functionBasic knowledge of load balancing technologies, including application delivery controlGood knowledge of network packet captures, tooling and ability to analyseGood knowledge of datacenter networking including Software Defined Networking, Cisco ACI, VxLANGood scripting and automation experience (Python, Ansible, Terraform, GIT, GitLab, Rundeck, etc)Outstanding interpersonal skills, both spoken (verbal) and written English language abilitiesPrevious experience working in/with Architecture / Engineering / network operation teamsPrevious experience working with banking infra and supporting financial institution networkExperience in Cloud, specifically cloud networking standard methodologiesProven exposure to financial sector, including low latency (trading) environmentsExperience in managing and handling Enterprise network.