This appointment offers you the privilege of contributing to a highly accomplished team, entrusted with the design, implementation, and stewardship of resilient network and firewall infrastructures that are fundamental to critical banking operations on an international scale. You will be afforded significant influence over the evolution of the organisation's network estate, collaborating with esteemed professionals across continents.
SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER
Salary: £120,000 - £135,000
Location: London
A distinguished opportunity is presented for a Senior Network Engineer to join the ranks of a globally esteemed financial institution headquartered in London. This appointment offers you the privilege of contributing to a highly accomplished team, entrusted with the design, implementation, and stewardship of resilient network and firewall infrastructures that are fundamental to critical banking operations on an international scale. You will be afforded significant influence over the evolution of the organisation's network estate, collaborating with esteemed professionals across continents, and playing an instrumental role in ensuring the seamless delivery of services.
What you'll do:
- Conceiving, implementing, and overseeing robust network infrastructure solutions that guarantee high availability, scalability, and security throughout all business divisions.
- Serving as the third-line technical escalation authority for incidents, problems, changes, and break/fix matters within the domain of network engineering.
- Cultivating relationships with third-party vendors through regular service evaluations, performance oversight activities, and contract negotiations to uphold exemplary service standards.
- Ensuring your team maintains current technical expertise requisite for supporting the organisation's evolving network technology portfolio and diverse clientele.
- Formulating and promulgating policies, standards, and guidelines that facilitate effective governance of the entire network estate.
- Supervising deployment planning, scheduling, installation procedures, as well as hardware and software lifecycle management-including upgrades and end-of-life transitions-for all network components.
- Assessing requirements for supplementary resources by evaluating costs and provisioning third-party support when necessary for extensive deployments or enhancements.
- Establishing collaborative interfaces with other departments within IT Infrastructure Services & Operations (IS&O) as well as broader IT groups to ensure harmonious integration of services.
- Administering risk identification processes, reporting mechanisms, and mitigation strategies pertinent to network technology stacks in accordance with organisational governance frameworks.
- Delivering comprehensive performance reports against key indicators and metrics to underpin business management governance processes.
What you bring:
- Extensive experience occupying senior-level positions in networking with demonstrable proficiency in both engineering and firewall management within intricate enterprise environments.
- Proven capability to serve as a third-line escalation point for incident resolution involving advanced troubleshooting across multi-vendor platforms.
- Comprehensive background in managing vendor relationships including conducting regular service reviews and negotiating contracts for outsourced provisions.
- Thorough understanding of risk management principles as applied to network technology stacks-enabling early threat identification and implementation of effective mitigation measures.
- Expertise in formulating policies, standards, guidelines for expansive network estates encompassing deployment planning through lifecycle administration.
- Practical experience with Arista/Cisco infrastructure; WAN technologies such as SD-WAN/MPLS/IPSec VPN; Fortinet/FortiGate/Palo Alto firewalls; Solarwinds/Algosec/Thousand Eyes; DNS/DHCP/IPAM; Cisco ISE; Riverbed optimisation; QoS; VXLAN & EVPN; BGP/OSPF routing protocols; Meraki Wi-Fi; Citrix NetScaler load balancing; CIS configuration benchmarks.
- Experience operating production networks within regulated industries such as banking or financial services where compliance is paramount.
- Excellent interpersonal skills facilitating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams including architectural specialists and regional support personnel.
- Aptitude for producing clear performance reports aligned with business objectives using key indicators relevant to technology governance frameworks.
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