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# Network Specialist - Core

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Hot Standby Router Protocol, Internet Group Management Protocols, Network Architecture, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS), Virtual Local Area Networks, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocols, System Availability, Reliability of Systems, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Information Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Kibana
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2918697049-2

## About the Role

improve network performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.Collaborate and provide guidance to Network reliability team to ensure proper implementation and support.Provide L3 escalation support to remediate performance and availability issues.Identify areas of improvements adopting automation and innovative solutions.Required Qualifications:Degree in Network engineering, Computer Science, or related Information Technology disciplineCCNP certification or higher (CCIE preferred)Minimum 7 years of experience in network engineering and project delivery, with a strong track record of successful project execution.Deep knowledge of routing and switching protocolsRouting: OSPF, BGP, EVPNMulticast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP, SSMSwitching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLANMonitoring: LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, PrometheusSecurity: AAA (Radius/TACACS), control planes, device hardeningExperience with Arista / CiscoDatacenter/office network infrastructure buildout experiencExperience with

## Description

Position Overview:Squarepoint is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Network Core Specialist to architect, develop, optimize and secure scalable networks for Datacenter, Campus and Cloud infrastructures.The Network Core Specialist is part of a team that work closely with stakeholders, software engineers and other infrastructure teams to design enterprise network solutions that align with Squarepoint business objectives in a timely manner and ensure high availability and performance.Design and implement scalable, highly available and deterministic network solutions in a multi-vendor enterprise environments (LAN, WAN, DC, Campus and Cloud).Translate business requirements into technical network architectures.Provide details and professional documentation, including diagrams.Project delivery/management collaborating with internal and external vendors.Select software and hardware components based on technical and business requirements.Evaluate and recommend new technologies to


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