Network Engineer (Trade)

Working with a global financial services organisation who are looking for a Network Engineer (Trading and Low Latency) to help deliver a high-profile project.

Details

• Location - London
• Hybrid - 3 days / week in office
• Duration - Initially 6 months
• Rate - £800-£900 / day
• Inside IR35 via Umbrella

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 7+ years' experience supporting mission-critical networking within financial markets or exchange environments.
• Proven experience working directly within a recognised Exchange, Trading Venue or Financial Market Infrastructure organisation.
• Strong understanding of electronic trading architectures, market data distribution, exchange connectivity and low-latency network design.
• Core Competencies: Deep expertise across core networking technologies and protocols, including: BGP, OSPF, VRF, VLANs, VXLAN, VPN, NAT, DNS, DHCP, PTP, Multicast.
• Strong experience in routing, switching, firewalling and load balancing with major vendor platforms (Cisco, Arista , Palo Alto, Fortinet, A10/F5).
• Deep expertise in network latency visibility and monitoring , with a strong track record of diagnosing and resolving latency-sensitive issues within electronic trading environments.
• Strong understanding and operational experience of PTP environments, including timing distribution and regulatory timestamping requirements.
• Experience delivering infrastructure projects in highly regulated financial environments.
• Previous experience supporting and integrating cloud platforms and cloud native networking (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/OpenShift networking (CNI plugins, eBPF, service mesh, ingress/egress controllers, network policies).
• Hands-on experience with automation and IaC for network and cloud networking (Ansible, Terraform, Python).
• Understanding of ITIL v3/v4 processes across incident, problem and change management.
• Experience delivering within Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models.