Senior Network Engineer - Trading Infrastructure & Automation

Xcede; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support latency-sensitive trading infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. You will own production network and contribute to automation, observability tooling, and incident response for global services.

Key requirements include 5+ years of network engineering across Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto, strong routing and firewall fundamentals, and scripting or API-driven automation (Python).

Qualifications

• 5+ years' network engineering experience across Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto.
• Strong fundamentals in routing, switching, and firewall technologies (BGP, OSPF, Multicast).
• Packet analysis experience (tcpdump, Wireshark, tshark).
• Scripting or API-driven automation experience (Python).

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support customer connectivity across on-prem and cloud, including circuit provisioning, AWS networking, and VPN
• Configure and deploy production changes across routing, firewall, and cloud network infrastructure
• Troubleshoot complex environments (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, multicast, HSRP)
• Provide real-time monitoring and incident response for global network infrastructure
• Lead escalations and advanced troubleshooting across network, cloud, and infrastructure domains
• Build automation, monitoring, and observability tooling via scripting and API integrations (Python)
• Perform deep packet analysis and contribute to root cause investigations

Skills

Network engineering

Troubleshooting

Automation

Python scripting

Tools

Cisco

Arista

Palo Alto

Job description

Xcede in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support latency-sensitive trading infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. You will own production network and contribute to automation, observability tooling, and incident response for global services.

Key requirements include 5+ years of network engineering across Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto, strong routing and firewall fundamentals, and scripting or API-driven automation (Python).