Lead Network Engineer

About the role

The role includes 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.

Role Responsibilities

• Supports the technology lifecycle through the design, build and maintenance of systems
• Administers LSEG network services, ensuring applications and services perform against baselines levels
• Maintains network services, focusing on availability, while identifying improvement opportunities
• Handles service providers (telcos), third parties and partners as required
• Makes technical design and amendment decisions and independently handles workloads
• Crafts, reviews and maintains documentation, compliant with LSEG (industry) standards
• Defines lifecycle management strategies for hardware and software, including capacity considerations
• Supports the deployment of emerging engineering patterns across development teams
• Translates business requirements into technical (network) requirements, through analysis of data
• Collaborates to multiple projects in parallel providing regular updates to multiple partners
• Buils and validates technical requirements, with emphasis on performance, resilience and operability
• Gets involved into design work in the infrastructure and network domain, providing innovative solutions
• Supports day to day network operational issues and manages enterprise network

Required Skills & Experience

• Rich experience in identifying and solving network issues, end-to-end
• Significant experience of routing and switching and Routing protocols (CCNA/CCNP preferred)
• Significant experience in network operations, project delivery and engineering
• Excellent experience in managing enterprise networks
• Good in handling DDI/infoblox (L1 Support)
• Excellent in handling and managing Wireless infra
• Significant experience with network technologies, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet & F5 – at least 2 of these
• Good network skills, including HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP and OSPF
• Basic multicast skills, including IGMP, RP and PIM
• Basic knowledge of firewall technologies, including next generation features & function
• Basic knowledge of load balancing technologies, including application delivery control
• Good knowledge of network packet captures, tooling and ability to analyse
• Good knowledge of datacenter networking including Software Defined Networking, Cisco ACI, VxLAN
• Outstanding scripting and automation experience (Python, Ansible, Terraform, GIT, GitLab, Rundeck, etc)
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, both spoken (verbal) and written English language abilities
• Previous experience working in/with Architecture / Engineering / network operation teams
• Previous experience working with banking infra and supporting financial institution network
• Proven exposure to financial sector, including low latency (trading) environments
• Experience in Cloud, specifically cloud networking standard methodologies
• Experience in managing and handling Enterprise network

Career Stage: Senior Associate