Senior Network Engineer
Summary
Senior Network Engineer joining the APAC team of a global financial services firm, owning low-latency, resilient network operations across data centres, offices and cloud for a 24/7 latency-sensitive trading platform. Core stack: BGP/OSPF, Palo Alto firewalls, Zscaler, Python/Ansible automation, with AWS networking as a plus.
Description of the project:
Join a global financial services organization as a Senior Network Engineer, supporting and developing its growing APAC network capability. You will be responsible for ensuring reliable, resilient, and low-latency connectivity across data centres, offices, and cloud environments.
The network infrastructure supports a sophisticated, latency-sensitive trading platform operating across a 24/7 global environment. You will work within a small, highly experienced engineering team, with strong ownership of solutions and a direct impact on business-critical systems. The environment places a strong emphasis on engineering quality, security, performance, and operational resilience.
What you'll do
• Own network operations and change through the day across the firm's sites and cloud
• Lead on resilience, low-latency connectivity and incident response for trading-critical paths
• Drive automation of network configuration, monitoring and validation
• Partner with London and New York on global standards and follow-the-sun coverage
• Mentor engineers as the India team grows
What you'll bring
• 7+ years in enterprise/data-centre networking, ideally in trading or another latency-sensitive setting
• Deep routing/switching (BGP, OSPF), firewalls (Palo Alto) and secure web (Zscaler)
• Network automation (Python, Ansible) and monitoring
• Calm, rigorous operator for trading-critical infrastructure
Nice to have
• Cloud networking (AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect)
• Multicast / market-data networking
• follow-the-sun experience