Lead Network Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group in St. Louis USA is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to provide 2nd line support for the LSEG ecosystem, focusing on reliability and automation of network platforms, services, and pipelines.

You will design, implement and maintain network infrastructure, collaborate across projects, and translate business needs into network requirements while ensuring security and performance.

Qualifications

• Rich experience in identifying and solving network issues end-to-end.
• Extensive routing, switching and protocols experience (CCNA/CCNP preferred).
• Experience in network operations, project delivery and engineering.
• Experience with enterprise networks; banking infra experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Supports the technology lifecycle through design, build and maintenance of systems.
• Administer network services, ensuring performance against baselines.
• Monitors network services for availability and performance.
• Liaises with telcos, third parties and partners as required.
• Translates business requirements into technical network specifications.
• Collaborates on multiple projects providing updates to partners.
• Supports deployment of new engineering patterns across teams.
• Handles day-to-day network operational issues.

Skills

Routing and Switching

CCNA/CCNP

Network Operations

Enterprise Networks

Wireless Infrastructure

Firewall Technologies

Load Balancing

Networking Protocols (BGP/OSPF)

Scripting (Python)

Tools

Cisco IOS / NX-OS

Juniper

Arista

Fortinet

F5

Ansible

Terraform

Git/GitLab

Rundeck

Job description

## Lead Network EngineerApplylocations: USA-St. Louis-795 Office Pkwytime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R0121214Position Summary The role includes ongoing support and reliability of the LSEG ecosystem (Platforms, Networks, Applications, Services, and Websites). The focus of this role is to provide 2nd line support to the Operations and Project Delivery (Implementation) functions, ensuring operational stability and ongoing adaptability of the LSEG global network. Key responsibilities are creating and maintaining software automation that provides the reliability and availability of digital platforms and their software delivery pipelines. Role Responsibilities Supports the technology lifecycle through the design, build and maintenance of systems Administer LSEG network services, ensuring applications and services perform against baselines levels Monitors network services, focusing on availability, while identifying improvement opportunities Handles service providers (telcos), third parties and partners as required Makes technical design and amendment decisions and independently handles workloads Crafts, reviews and maintains documentation, complaint with LSEG (industry) standards Defines lifecycle management strategies for hardware and software, including capacity considerations Supports the deployment of emerging engineering patterns across development teams Translates business requirements into technical (network) requirements, through analysis of data Collaborates to multiple projects in parallel providing regular updates to multiple partners Builds and validates technical requirements, with emphasis on performance, resilience and operability Gets involved into design work in the infrastructure and network domain, providing innovative solutions, Support day to day network operational issues and manage enterprise network. Required Skills & Experience Rich experience in identifying and solving network issues, end-to-end. Significant experience of routing and switching and Routing protocols (CCNA/CCNP preferred) Significant experience in network operations, project delivery and engineering Excellent experience in managing enterprise networks Good in handling DDI/infloblox(L1 Support) Excellent in handling and managing Wireless infra. Significant experience with network technologies, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet & F5 – at least 2 of these Excellent network skills, including HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP and OSPF Basic multicast skills, including IGMP, RP and PIM Basic knowledge of firewall technologies, including next generation features & function Basic knowledge of load balancing technologies, including application delivery control Good knowledge of network packet captures, tooling and ability to analyse Good knowledge of datacenter networking including Software Defined Networking, Cisco ACI, VxLAN Good scripting and automation experience (Python, Ansible, Terraform, GIT, GitLab, Rundeck, etc) Outstanding interpersonal skills, both spoken (verbal) and written English language abilities Required Skills & Experience Previous experience working in/with Architecture / Engineering / network operation teams Previous experience working with banking infra and supporting financial institution network Experience in Cloud, specifically cloud networking standard methodologies Proven exposure to financial sector, including low latency (trading) environments Experience in managing and handling Enterprise network.