Network Engineering Lead

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (Jefferies we us or our) is a global full service integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary Jefferies LLC a U.S. brokerdealer was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary Jefferies International Limited a U.K. brokerdealer was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking equities fixed income asset and wealth management in the Americas Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join and lead the Network Engineering/Architecture team. You will be responsible for the design planning implementation/deployment troubleshooting and maintenance of the firms global network infrastructure and architecture. You must enjoy technical challenges building and enhancing environments testing documenting network designs and staying on the cutting edge by researching and innovating next generation designs.

The individual needs to show a keen interest in technology this role requires an individual with effective communication and interpersonal skills that can establish and maintain an excellent relationship with technology and finance teams.

People Qualifications:

• Extraordinary technical communicator who is skilled and experienced with connecting the dots for organizations as well as influencing and advising on organizational strategies.
  
• Ability to persuade and change the technical thinking of others in a leadership role while maintaining strong relationships.
  
• Comfortable working in a fastpaced environment that sometimes has minimal direction but requires you to have proactive discussions to help drive projects and initiatives.
  
• Delivering under tight deadlines while multitasking prioritizing projects communicating priority updates to team members and conducting meetings with team members and stakeholders
  
• Exhibit criticalthinking and the ability to creatively solve problems.
  
• Motivated and inventive has a committed drive for contributing and making a difference.
  
• Experience working on application and infrastructure implementation projects and ensuring results conform to network architecture standards.

Vendors and Protocols:

• Networking: Cisco Arista Aruba SilverPeak (SDWAN)
  
• Firewall and SaaS: Palo Alto Prisma Access
  
• LoadBalancers and WAFs: F5 BigIP CloudFlare A10 Networks (optional)
  
• DDOS: CloudFlare and Radware.
  
• Network Observability: cPacket Viavi Wireshark ThousandEyes Grafana Elasticsearch Telegraf Logstash
  
• Clouds: AWS Azure
  
• Wireless: Cisco and Juniper MIST
  
• Networking Protocols: BGP MPBGP OSPF Multicast MLAG VPC MSTP RapidPVST LACP mutual route redistribution VXLAN eVPN.
  
• Programming and Automation: Python JSON Jinja Ansible YAML.
  

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with application infrastructure and business stakeholders to formulate and implement a network architecture built on resiliency and scalability.
  
• Develop standardization and deployment documents with team members that drives the install and configuration of networking hardware.
  
• Evaluate preproduction designs and standards in a development environment using success criteria for product and platform selection.
  
• Develop standardization for day2 network infrastructure deployments configurations monitoring and automation.
  
• Research and evaluate products doing proofofconcept analysis across multiple vendors which also includes functionality and cost.
  
• Develop strategies to conduct biannual resiliency and network infrastructure failover testing.
  
• Drive cost optimization by identifying areas within the network infrastructure that can be consolidated or are underutilized.
  
• Develop framework for networking solutions with innovation and emerging technologies across multiple vendors.
  
• Apply innovative thinking to help drive new business and technology initiatives that keeps the firm on the cutting edge.
  
• Understand fullstack architectures inclusive of Enterprisedriven workflows Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD deployment models Enterprise Network Orchestration & Automation Source of Truth ChatOps ITSM (ServiceNow) and knowing how open source can lead or compliment a given architecture.
  
• Apply innovative thinking to help drive observability using streaming telemetry with real time alerting and AI integrations.
  
• Create networking architecture roadmaps based on business technology initiatives vendor enhancements improvements and endoflife.
  
• Conduct cross team collaboration efforts to drive networking support for the firms technology.
  
• Enhance and maintain network monitoring/observability infrastructure to support business stability and continuity.
  
• Develop framework to monitor and test network performance within a spine/leaf architecture and private wan network.
  
• Drive the innovation to integrate multiple solutions into a single pane of glass for monitoring and altering visibility.
  
• Delegate projects and track milestones for team members.
  
• Assess technical bottlenecks and process problems that team members may encounter and provide direction.
  
• Conduct daily and or weekly meetings to track progress on major project deliverables or issues.
  
• Drive direction and create roadmaps that help meet business and technical objectives.
  
• Provide mentorship to team members and conduct technical and performance goals.

Technical Qualifications:

• 10 years of technical experience in networking network security and leading a team.
  
• Working understanding of openstandard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
  
• Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis packet captures and event correlation tools.
  
• Experience building out multi sized datacenters campuses and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles industry standards and best practices.
  
• Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls VPNs loadbalancers and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
  
• Experience in multiple technical domains such as server storage desktop security and network infrastructure.
  
• Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions with AWS and Azure
  
• Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Cisco Arista Palo Alto F5 and Aruba SilverPeak
  
• Experience designing and implementing cloud hosted SaaS solutions for end user remote and branch secure connection.
  
• Working knowledge on building and implementing a network automation design that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
  
• Experience designing implementing and supporting networks that host trading applications collocated.
  

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175000 $200000.