Looking for a role with plenty of growth opportunities?
Join a global proprietary trading firm specialising in futures trading across international markets, backed by a fast-growing group with deep experience in derivatives markets across global financial exchanges. With traders and researchers in India, Europe, and Canada, the organization values quick-witted analysis, independent judgement, and intellectual curiosity.
The company is looking to appoint a Senior / Lead Network Engineer to take day‑to‑day ownership of its network infrastructure and provide technical leadership to a small, globally distributed networking team. The ideal candidate will stay highly hands‑on while developing junior engineers and working closely with the Head of IT Infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of the day‑to‑day operation of the firm's global network infrastructure
- Provide technical leadership and direction to a distributed network engineering team
- Support and mentor junior network engineers
- Manage and troubleshoot multicast connectivity supporting trading environments
- Work extensively with Arista networking infrastructure
- Support internal network infrastructure across offices, data centres and colocations
- Work alongside third‑party providers supporting ultra‑low‑latency and colocation connectivity
- Lead network projects from design through to implementation
- Support the onboarding of new exchange feeds and connectivity
- Improve operational processes, monitoring and on‑call procedures
- Report on network performance, projects, risks and operational issues to the Head of IT Infrastructure
Skills/Must Have:
- Strong hands‑on Network Engineering experience within a trading, financial markets or similarly latency‑sensitive environment
- Strong understanding of multicast networking
- Experience working with Arista networking technologies
- Experience supporting global production network environments
- Previous technical leadership, mentoring or team lead experience
- Comfortable taking ownership of a network function while remaining hands‑on
- Strong troubleshooting skills across complex production environments
- Experience working with data centre and colocation infrastructure
- Able to operate effectively within a small, remote and highly autonomous engineering team
Benefits:
- You’ll join a small infrastructure team where engineers are given significant ownership and trust. The network team is currently distributed globally, with the successful engineer becoming the senior technical point of contact for the function.
Salary:
- Up to £100,000 basic salary
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