Senior Network Project Engineer

Role Profile

The Senior Network Engineer forms a critical part of the Global Network Team within ISS Fabric Services.

The focus of this role is design engineering, enhancements and escalation support of the LSE global WAN and LAN environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of technical solutions for recurring technical issues, ensuring that long term fixes are implemented to prevent any repeat failures
• Highly proficient stakeholder management skills
• Attending technical workshops and being the authority on design decisions
• Ensure estimates provided for projects are fully scoped, underpinned by assumptions and derived from thorough analysis
• Manage the planning, implementing and reporting on a sustained program of continuous improvement
• Provide high quality documentation and Network diagrams to the Network Operations team

Candidate Profile / Key Skills

• Work closely with business management to determine business process and productivity needs and an appropriate technology strategy to support business goals.
• Analyse technical needs, requirements, and state of the network's infrastructure design, integration, and operations.
• Work with technical management to architect networks that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters.
• Develop design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Establish governing principles for network design and deployment.
• Participate in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation
• Lead teams of other network designers and engineers in developing detailed designs and quality-control mechanisms during implementation.
• Communicate the role and value of the network to the organization and present the business case for technology investments.
• Continually update understanding of business and technology status and objectives and respond to strategic design requests as the business evolves.
• Excellent client management skills
• Good knowledge of Service Management process's
• In-depth knowledge of routing and switching, including LAN, WAN, MAN and WLAN technologies
• Experience with F5 LTM and GTM.
• In depth experience with Cisco ACI
• Experience with Automation specifically Ansible is preferable
• Extensive experience deploying BGP, OSPF, PIM, MPLS, VPLS, IPVPN, with Cisco and Juniper technologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of Multicast technologies as used in financial sector (NG-MVPN desirable) on Juniper
• Knowledge of low latency switching technologies from Arista and Cloud Vision
• Knowledge of Fortinet and Juniper (SRXNetscreen) firewall technologies
• Experience of the following management toolsets are preferred.
  • Entuity
  • BMC Network Automation

Key Behaviours

Analysis and Problem Solving

• Analyses issues to identify the most commercial, realistic and pragmatic solutions. Considers all options and if one solution does not work will find a successful alternative quickly

Communication

• Ensure that staff are updated on updated on progress both at a corporate and business unit level against goals and objectives
• Oral and written communications are tailored to their audience's needs, well structured, persuasive, concise and based upon fact. Messages and arguments are compelling

Collaboration

• Shares information across teams.

Managing Relationships

• Demonstrates the knowledge and expertise in their field to have credibility with their peers
• Always follows up and delivers on action points agreed with clients/colleagues

Planning

• Prioritises activities according to business need - completes essential tasks first
• Foresees forthcoming risks, escalates early and has plans for risk mitigation

Delivery

• Takes responsibility and accountability for their own tasks and mistakes
• Takes on routine tasks as necessary. Carries out work without prompting and close supervision

High Performance

• Pro-active and demonstrates initiative

Experience and Qualifications

• Demonstrable years of experience in Networks design and project deliver
• Demonstrated exposure to financial markets and associated technologies
• Excellent planning and communication skills, with experience of working in both Agile and waterfall methodologies

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

A career with London Stock Exchange Group can offer you a first-class working environment at the centre of the financial community. As well as competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits, we maximise each employee's potential through personal development plans, training, coaching and mentoring and by giving employees the opportunity to work on challenging projects. We promote an environment of equality of opportunity.

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We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios. If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career.

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development and through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe that remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• Team Buildings

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise - and our purpose. You'll be part of an organisation of over 25,000 people, spanning 70 countries. We recognise the individual perspectives each of our colleagues brings, and our diverse workforce is one of our greatest strengths. In supporting collaboration and creativity and encouraging new ideas across a diverse and inclusive workforce, we can improve how we are driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support from healthcare and retirement planning to paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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