Desired Skills and Experience
- Analyze business requirements and design, implement, and manage an effective (WAN/LAN) network that supports our current domestic trading platform and a future global platform
- Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies or procedures to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks
- Evaluate current/new technology and network providers on an ongoing basis to ensure that the trading infrastructure remains stable, competitive and cost effective
- Work closely with our entire IT team as well as traders to improve all aspects of our infrastructure
- Day to day support of network and application environments
- Assist in hardware/software evaluation and make recommendations on purchases
- Ability to multitask and meet numerous business goals
- Work on open sourced and proprietary monitoring tools that are customized to fit our business
- Assisting in breaking down complex issues within the network stack
- Document and focus on automation of all our day to day operations
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience working with Juniper/Arista/Cisco
- Experience maintaining and monitoring CWDM/DWDM networks
- Experience in IP telephony, multi campus video conferencing, Hoot-n-holler, instant messaging
- Familiarity with a diverse path/low latency WAN utilizing multiple vendors
- Multiple years of experience in maintaining internet security and actively managing VPN connections
- Experience performing network traffic and protocol analysis using standard industry tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)
- Background in hardware or software based messaging protocols
- CCIE level expertise in BGP, iBGP, eBGP, OSPF and Multicast routing for Senior level candidates
- Knowledge of Exchange network topologies preferred
- Knowledge of low latency Exchange implementations preferred
- Scripting language experience such as python is a plus