Network Engineer (Trade)

Working with a global financial services organisation who are looking for a Network Engineer (Trading and Low Latency) to help deliver a high-profile project.

Details Location - London Hybrid - 3 days / week in office Duration - Initially 6 months Rate - £800-£900 / day Inside IR35 via Umbrella

Skills and Experience Required

Minimum 7+ years' experience supporting mission-critical networking within financial markets or exchange environments.

Proven experience working directly within a recognised Exchange, Trading Venue or Financial Market Infrastructure organisation. Strong understanding of electronic trading architectures, market data distribution, exchange connectivity and low-latency network design.

Core Competencies

Deep expertise across core networking technologies and protocols, including: BGP, OSPF, VRF, VLANs, VXLAN, VPN, NAT, DNS, DHCP, PTP, Multicast.

Strong experience in routing, switching, firewalling and load balancing with major vendor platforms (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, Fortinet, A10/F5).

Deep expertise in network latency visibility and monitoring, with a strong track record of diagnosing and resolving latency-sensitive issues within electronic trading environments.

Strong understanding and operational experience of PTP environments, including timing distribution and regulatory timestamping requirements.

Experience delivering infrastructure projects in highly regulated financial environments.

Previous experience supporting and integrating cloud platforms and cloud native networking (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Familiarity with Kubernetes/OpenShift networking (CNI plugins, eBPF, service mesh, ingress/egress controllers, network policies).

Hands-on experience with automation and IaC for network and cloud networking (Ansible, Terraform, Python).

Understanding of ITIL v3/v4 processes across incident, problem and change management.

Experience delivering within Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery models.

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