Network Engineer Automation - Trading

Are you a well educated networking technologist? You could be joining a leading quantitative trading firm, progressing your career and earning significant bonuses.

As a Network Engineer you will help build and scale the network ahead of business demands, whilst driving more standardisation using automation. A typical day for you might involve working on new data centres and colocations, WAN routing optimisation, collaborating with stakeholders to identify requirements and network features, contributing to support efforts and documenting and automating the network design to limit outages and increase the ability to resolve issues rapidly.

You'll be supported with training and mentoring to deepen your knowledge of financial markets as well as technology, using modern tools and automation.

• You have achieved a 2.1 or above from a top tier university (Russel Group, Oxbridge) in a relevant discipline, Computer Science preferred
• You have experience with routing and network protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM-SM)
• You have demonstrable experience/research within network automation and associated tools
• You're likely to research technology in your own time, read blogs, attend conferences and have an enthusiasm to learn
• You have experience or a demonstrable interest in financial services, banking or trading and are keen to progress your career in this area

As a Network Engineer you will earn a highly competitive salary plus benefits package:

• Pension (c12%)
• Private medical care and access to GP appointments
• Employee Assistance programme
• Emergency childcare provision and childcare vouchers
• Income Protection and Life Assurance
• Wellness benefits such as free onsite gym, Virgin Active membership, weekly yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity / paternity packages
• Training and book budget