Senior Engineer - Network & Connectivity

About the role:

Our client, a well-known financial services & technology organization is currently looking to hire a Senior/ Lead Engineer experienced in Network & Connectivity Services as part of their Infrastructure and Operations Team.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project management of Network Infrastructures from design to delivery and provide technical advice.
• Work with technical and business teams to provide L3 networking technical consultative services and recommendations.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects which include planning, scheduling, coordinating, and commissioning.
• Plan and manage the global network and connectivity services in an enterprise hybrid cloud environment.
• Work with the team in ensuring network connectivity availability, performance, and resource capacity.
• Work with team to automate daily operational tasks to improve efficiency using tools or scripts.
• Work closely with various IT operations teams to support and troubleshoot problems and issues.
• After office hours and weekend support is expected.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 8 years' experience in network connectivity services administration, preferably in financial services or investment banking industries.
• Possess a valid Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification or equivalent. CCIE is preferred.
• Strong domain knowledge of network design principles, tools and technologies, particularly in WAN, LAN (wired and wireless), Data Centre core network backbone, Cisco ACI, VXLAN, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, firewalls, load balancers, and proxies.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud infrastructure Services and network connectivity.
• Strong knowledge of SDWAN technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Next Generation Firewalls as well as Automated Firewall Deployment Systems
• Design and implementation experience in integrating the automation capabilities across traditional and software-defined network/security products.