Network Engineer

Hong Kong - Hong Kong

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What You Will Do

Safeguard the continuity of our trading systems infrastructure and facilitate our traders in their day-to-day activities
Monitor and optimise our systems which host a wide range of applications
Be the driving force behind innovations ranging from realizing new links between stock markets and our network to implementing solutions that optimise system stability/performance and reliability
Maintain and improve the existing network/infra/systems which also includes network orchestration and automation tasks
Manage maintain and shape infrastructures develop and enact contingency plans and provide secondary and tertiary support to our teams
Frequent contact with internal and external stakeholders (traders data centers/colocations third party suppliers)
Proactively lookout for ways to optimise performance

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelors Degree or Professional Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent
At least 3-5 years of experience in IT (support/optimization/deployments) to cover wide area networks branch offices cloud multicast routing security devices (firewalls) and wireless networks
Desired experience with support electronic trading systems within capital markets firm or equivalent industry (APAC regional knowledge)
Desired experience supporting environments with low latency networks capture probes and network latency management systems
Strong knowledge of Cisco & Arista technologies (L2/L3 switches and routers firewalls and wireless etc.)
Understanding the specific IT needs of our organization (low latency high performance redundancy and high availability) and excel at resolving issues on the fly
Experience with Unix/Linux command line and networking stack
Hands-on scripting experience (Bash/Shell Python and Salt)
Network related certification (example CCNP) is a plus
Knowledge in Cloud platform environments (AWS and GCP)
Knowledge of Data Center and cabling standards
Understanding of Project Management methodology and best practices
Able to produce quality documentation on network design diagrams and support materials
Desire to adopt new technologies and ability to contribute as a team player

Desirable knowledge:

Routing protocols: BGP OSPF multicast routing PIM SM/DM/SSM
Knowledge on switching concepts: VLAN Spanning-tree protocol (RSTP MSTP) Port-Channel VRRP/HSRP CEF TCAM etc.
Time synchronization protocols NTP PTP (grandmaster boundary clock offset) and GPS
TCP analysis and traffic optimization with concepts as TCP Slow-start Dup-Acks Retransmits SACK Checksum and Seq Number
Security (VPN IPSEC SSL Access-Lists)
Network Monitoring (Zabbix SNMP Netflow and Grafana)
WAN Connectivity (MPLS Ethernet and DWDM)
Packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and wireshark

What You Will Do Safeguard the continuity of our trading systems infrastructure and facilitate our traders in their day-to-day activitiesMonitor and optimise our systems which host a wide range of applicationsBe the driving force behind innovations ranging from realizing new links between stock mark...

What You Will Do

Safeguard the continuity of our trading systems infrastructure and facilitate our traders in their day-to-day activities
Monitor and optimise our systems which host a wide range of applications
Be the driving force behind innovations ranging from realizing new links between stock markets and our network to implementing solutions that optimise system stability/performance and reliability
Maintain and improve the existing network/infra/systems which also includes network orchestration and automation tasks
Manage maintain and shape infrastructures develop and enact contingency plans and provide secondary and tertiary support to our teams
Frequent contact with internal and external stakeholders (traders data centers/colocations third party suppliers)
Proactively lookout for ways to optimise performance

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelors Degree or Professional Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent
At least 3-5 years of experience in IT (support/optimization/deployments) to cover wide area networks branch offices cloud multicast routing security devices (firewalls) and wireless networks
Desired experience with support electronic trading systems within capital markets firm or equivalent industry (APAC regional knowledge)
Desired experience supporting environments with low latency networks capture probes and network latency management systems
Strong knowledge of Cisco & Arista technologies (L2/L3 switches and routers firewalls and wireless etc.)
Understanding the specific IT needs of our organization (low latency high performance redundancy and high availability) and excel at resolving issues on the fly
Experience with Unix/Linux command line and networking stack
Hands-on scripting experience (Bash/Shell Python and Salt)
Network related certification (example CCNP) is a plus
Knowledge in Cloud platform environments (AWS and GCP)
Knowledge of Data Center and cabling standards
Understanding of Project Management methodology and best practices
Able to produce quality documentation on network design diagrams and support materials
Desire to adopt new technologies and ability to contribute as a team player

Desirable knowledge:

Routing protocols: BGP OSPF multicast routing PIM SM/DM/SSM
Knowledge on switching concepts: VLAN Spanning-tree protocol (RSTP MSTP) Port-Channel VRRP/HSRP CEF TCAM etc.
Time synchronization protocols NTP PTP (grandmaster boundary clock offset) and GPS
TCP analysis and traffic optimization with concepts as TCP Slow-start Dup-Acks Retransmits SACK Checksum and Seq Number
Security (VPN IPSEC SSL Access-Lists)
Network Monitoring (Zabbix SNMP Netflow and Grafana)
WAN Connectivity (MPLS Ethernet and DWDM)
Packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and wireshark