Jobs

Network Engineer – Trading Contract

£800pd outside IR35

6 Months

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Contract Network Engineer to join our high profile client.

Our client is an established fintech on a mission to disrupt the foreign exchange market, applying innovation to tap FX liquidity. They are JV between from a major global Exchange. They processes 5 billion messages per day with zero downtime.

The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions. The atmosphere is calm and relaxed with an open dress code. This is a role for techies, those who are motivated by the sharp end of technology and the possibility of making serious money doing something you are passionate about.

The Infrastructure group is responsible for managing and engineering the company’s global solutions for networks, firewalls, servers and storage.

The client trades across Equities, Fixed Income, and FX

On a day to Day basis the Network Engineer will:

• Responsible for the on-premise global network.
• Set up a new high-performing, highly resilient, low-latency on-premise hub in London.
• On-board new business connections across the globe.
• Work with Arista, Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper and A10 network devices.
• Ensure efficient deployment and standard configuration management through automation.
• Troubleshoot issues and handle incident escalations (occasionally out-of-hours) while promoting production change management processes and procedures.

Network Engineers MUST have:

• Minimum 5 years’ as a Network Engineer
• Experience in most of following technologies: low latency Arista switches, Fortinet firewalls, Cisco routing and switching products, Juniper SRX, A10 Load Balancers, Cisco ASA Firewalls, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and Corvil.
• Experience in coding and network automation, ideally using Python, Ansible and Jinja2 but others are considered.
• Advanced network knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VRFs, VXLAN, route leaking and filtering, IPsec VPNs, NATs + basic IPv6 and an understanding of multicast.
• Knowledge of Rest APIs, Git, SSL certificates, DNS, LDAP, DHCP and Linux.
• Network certificates such as CCNA, CCNP or Fortinet NSE4/7 could be beneficial.
• Experience of working in the financial sector could also be beneficial.

You will be joining a progressive and exciting company committed to excellence. They offer an excellent working environment with on-going training and a structured career path. You can also expect an excellent salary and benefits package.

My client is based in London, 3 days a week in the office

Network Engineer, BGP, OSPF, Low Latency, Linux, FIX, Linux TT, RTS, Bloomberg, Scripting, Client Support, FIX Integration, Implementation, NYSE, FTSE, EUREX, ICE, Nasdaq LSE, LME