Senior Network Engineer - FlexTrade

FlexTrade Systems is a financial technology Software Company headquartered in Great Neck, New York. We are celebrating 26 years as an industry pioneer and a global leader in broker-neutral trading platforms for equities, foreign exchange, options, futures, and fixed income. FlexTrade has 500+ employees across 10+ offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, and a worldwide client base both from Buy Side and Sell Side business. It is an exciting time to join FlexTrade. Each line of business and region is at a different growth phase. Across its functional teams, FlexTrade is taking bold steps to transform its business and approach to positioning itself for the next growth phase

The Team

We are actively seeking experienced candidates to join our global team that supports FlexTrade’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network infrastructure. As a financial services technology vendor that delivers mission critical services to our clients, FlexTrade’s Network is vital to our business and foundational to customer success. You will be a vital leader and member of the FlexTrade’s Network team. This team plays an integral role in the business, keeping our revenue generating SaaS environment well architected and running smoothly.. This ensures we can deliver a high level of service to our diverse set of clients, including large asset managers, hedge funds, banks and brokers which in turn maintains FlexTrade's reputation as a market leader in the space. 

About You

The Senor Network Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that the FlexTrade’s network infrastructure is well architected and runs smoothly.  Success in this role will require strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining networks, It requires robust and innovative approaches in, problem solving, technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail. Your experience and knowledge will be instrumental in helping FlexTrade to build, manage and maintain a highly resilient network. You will also be called upon to help be the technical representative for your team during major incident and troubleshooting of network-related issues.

7–9 years of hands-on network engineering experience.

5–7 years of network operation experience including troubleshooting and incident handling

5–7 years of experience in network design and implementation

5–7  years of Extensive experience with Cisco switches, routers and firewalls

Advanced networking knowledge of EIGRP/OSPF/BGP routing, L2 switching (Port-channel, vPC), and Firewalls

Detailed understanding of network security, including Firewalls, VPNs,

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, and / or equivalent work experience

Excellent troubleshooting skills

Key Responsibilities

Work on a controlled change management environment.

Provides network operations support in a 24/7 operating environment.

Manage the full end-to-end technology life cycle within the network space

Work as part of a global network team monitoring and troubleshooting low latency network environments across several continents

Maintain and validate quality network service by establishing and enforcing managed hosting standards, metrics and best practices

Support internal and external customer requests

Plan, design, and work with Vendors to build, install and configure new network capabilities to meet the needs of the business

Manage projects. Including the ability to effectively and accurately document requirements and develop clear execution plans

The ability to plan and script complex changes within the network infrastructure. This involves a lot of weekend and off-hour work.

Patching & upgrade management of networking devices

Participates in change control committee, providing input into all changes/additions to network to ensure minimal disruption to production system.

Identify and delegate ways to create efficiencies in supporting clients, internal communications, and process development and refinement.

Forecasts potential issues within technical solutions and provides proactive remediation options for consideration.

Resolves any scheduled maintenance or major outage issues escalated from direct reports.

Additional Requirements

Experience with automation tools such as Ansible would be an advantage

CNP/CCIE certified or equivalent

RHCE, CompTIA certified or equivalent experience is desirable

**FlexTrade Systems, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an authorized agreement for a particular SOW (Statement of Work) in place is hired: such resumes are deemed the sole property of FlexTrade Systems, Inc.**

**FlexTrade Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law.**