Network Automation Engineer

Pico is currently seeking a Senior Automation Engineer candidate for our Network Automation Engineer role. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to, design, deployment, and escalated problem resolution, for a large global trading network. You will work with internal/external clients, operations/systems, financial exchanges, and other Network Engineers to design, automate, research, and develop, investigate, and solve system issues, and participate in business analysis., * Design and deploy internal and customer networks with automation, security, and operability as a focus.

• Strategize on methods to improve overall network infrastructure with a low-latency profile. Support internal and external customer facing issues.
• Construct valid configurations for implementation based upon design and/or technical concepts.
• Support deployment and maintenance of network switches, routers, firewalls, and other network appliances.
• Maintain and drive the Network Automation tooling and automated change management tool chain.

Do you have experience in YAML?, * 3+ years of experience working on network equipment in a Trading, Service Provider, or a large NOC.

• 3+ years of experience with Juniper, Arista, and/or Cisco hardware and software CCNP
• certified or equivalent level of knowledge.
• Good understanding of the characteristics of TCP vs UDP regarding reliability and statefulness and the role of network infrastructure regarding TCP/UDP
• Understanding of Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF) in highly distributed environments, Multicast Routing (IGMP, PIM), NAT (Static, Dynamic).
• Expertise with network-as-code - Python, Jinja2 Templating, JSON/YAML data structures, CI/CD pipelines, and toolsets such as Git/GitLab/Docker.
• Familiarity with any of these network automation tools; Ansible, Netmiko, Napalm or Nornir
• Experience with virtualized environment configuration capabilities - VM’s, containers Experience with one or more Databases - MySQL, Postgres, InfluxDB, Prometheus Understanding of Linux at a network and system level
• Familiarity with NetBox, NetBox plugin development & Ansible AWX
• Experience with templating such as TextFSM & TTP

Highly desirable:

• Expertise with Django framework
• Packet capture analysis (e.g. Not just capturing packets but more importantly analyzing common applications)
• Firewalls (VPNs, Zones, Policy Management)
• Batfish, Containerlab, Flask, Pandas

Working Arrangements

While this role is remote, dependent on candidate’s location this may be a Hybrid position with weekly time in the office and the flexibility of working from home. Though travel may be required from time to time, it is not expected to be regular or frequent. The role holder will be expected to work whatever hours are necessary for the performance of this role (recognizing that it involves multiple jurisdictions/geographies including but not limited to EMEA, USA and APAC).

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.