Network Engineer (Trade)

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.