Network Engineer

Highly stable and successful midsize investment management firm iin NYC is looking for a dedicated Network Engineer to maintain and support the firm's network infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability in a Windows/Linux environment.

About the Role

Candidates should be attentive to detail, possess strong problem-solving skills, and be motivated to rapidly learn and collaborate within a close-knit technical team.

Responsibilities

• Perform all routine network administration tasks, including managing firewall rules, switch configuration changes, periodic device patching and maintenance, and troubleshooting complex network connectivity issues.
• Support WAN cross-connects and interconnect circuits with various counterparties like brokers, market data vendors, and cloud providers.
• Manage and fully support the firm s network environment of Arista switches and Fortinet firewalls, spanning one main office location, two colocation datacenters, and a variety of public cloud presences. Support other miscellaneous infrastructure like Meraki Wi-Fi access points and remote access solutions.
• Design, Implement, and optimize network and security services like Fortigate and Zscaler, in on premises or cloud deployments.
• Complete scheduled operational tasks and respond to alerts or issues that arise from monitoring solutions like Solarwinds and SIEM.
• Monitor network performance and implement high availability solutions with redundancy and failover.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the firm's network such as diagrams of network topologies, standard configurations for network devices, and related operating procedures.
• Assist in any infrastructure projects or new network solution deployments as necessary.

Qualifications

• 4 year university degree (focus on technology is preferred).
• Relevant Certification such as Network+, CCNA, Security+ or similar is a plus.
• Strong experience managing enterprise network infrastructure, ideally within the investment management or finance sector.

Required Skills

• Detailed knowledge of the OSI network stack, with expertise in all layers of the stack.
• Expertise in WAN and routing topologies, datacenter switching, and traffic management strategies.
• Experience in designing and operating secure hybrid multi-cloud systems (Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS) including cloud connectivity and Infrastructure-as-code. Knowledge of cloud networking infrastructure like DNS, VPC, Firewalls, SGs, CASB, IDP, IAM.
• Demonstrated mastery of all core networking concepts, including switching and routing, subnetting and addressing
• Advanced knowledge of networking protocols like Ethernet, LACP, STP variants, 802.1q, 802.1x, VLAN and technologies like OSPF, BGP, Multicast PIM, NAT, VRRP, MLAG, QoS, VXLAN, GRE, IPSEC, DHCP, and PBR.
• Broad understanding of enterprise technology: applications, desktops, servers, storage, and security, particularly as it pertains to network operations and connectivity.
• Proactive with strong organizational and interpersonal communication skills.