IT Network Engineer (CCIE/ E-trading) - London / Hybrid working - Up to £668 per day (inside IR35)

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global Investment Banking client seeks an IT Network Engineer to enhance their electronic trading networking architecture. This role requires excellent communication skills and hands-on expertise in maintaining stable network environments. Ideal candidates will have CCIE qualifications and experience in high-availability, latency-sensitive networks, contributing to a small, agile team focused on ensuring operational performance.

Qualifications

• CCIE qualification preferred, or equivalent expertise.
• Experience in latency sensitive network environments.
• Knowledge of Arista architectures and hands-on configuration experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain stable network environments.
• Work with developers to understand application interaction.
• Ensure operational stability and performance improvements.

Skills

CCIE qualification

Multicast expertise

Network security

Routing protocols knowledge (OSPF, BGP)

Packet analysis experience

Scripting and network automation

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IT Network Engineer (CCIE/ E-trading) - London / Hybrid working - Up to £668 per day (inside IR35), london (city of london)

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Client:

Hawksworth

Location:

london (city of london), United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

16.06.2025

Expiry Date:

31.07.2025

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Job Description:

Hawksworth are now recruiting an IT Network Engineer for a global Investment Banking client in London.

• Term – 6 months initially
• Location: London / Liverpool St location
• Rate: Inside IR35 – Up to £668 per day

The client has received significant investment towards the latency electronic trading networking, allowing them to refresh the hardware and redesign of the architecture.

As the successful Network Engineer, you will have a proven record of delivering and maintaining stable network environments. You will need excellent communication skills and have an excellent understanding of a trading infrastructure. You will be dealing directly with developers and application support to determine and understand how their applications interact with the infrastructure to help ensure successful implementation and migration to the new architecture.

You will be part of a small team that is agile and multi-skilled and will ensure the London and Trading networks operate in a stable manner, using your expertise to optimize the functionality, performance and security, making improvements when needed.

Required skills & Experience:

• CCIE qualification preferred (candidates without CCIE who can demonstrate equivalent expertise will be considered)
• Expert in Multicast.
• Experience of working in highly available latency sensitive network environment utilizing multiple network (switching & routing) and security (firewall, Web Gateway & LTM) technologies
• Experience in capturing requirements from the business and working with multiple technical teams to identify solutions that balance business, security, availability and resiliency requirements.
• Experience with market brokers & direct market connectivity.
• Implementing of designs into the production environment under Change Control.
• A sound knowledge of Arista architectures and operating systems with hands on design and configuration experience.
• Confident knowledge and exposure of core routing protocols, OSPF and BGP, and IP transmission modes, Unicast and Mulitcast.
• Low level log & packet analysis experience is a must.
• Knowledge of scripting and network automation desirable.

If you have the required skills & experience, please apply now.