Senior Network Engineer

About the role

Pico fuels the global capital markets community by providing exceptional market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions. As financial industry experts at the center of markets and technology, we help our clients efficiently scale their business and quickly access markets. From infrastructure to connectivity, we support our clients through the full trading lifecycle. We are a global company headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Pico is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our Network Engineering team. In this role, you will design, deploy, and troubleshoot large-scale service provider network infrastructure, including escalated issues. You will work closely with internal and external clients, operations and systems teams, financial exchanges, and fellow Network Engineers to design and automate solutions, research and develop improvements, resolve system issues, and support business analysis.

Responsibilities and duties (includes but not limited to):

- Translate business requirements into architecture

- Convert availability, performance, and regulatory needs into technical designs

- Create HLDs depicting Logical Architecture and Traffic flow

- Define design principles with focus on scalability, resilience, simplicity and standardization

- Strategize on methods to improve overall network infrastructure with a low-latency profile

- Design and deploy customer networks with automation, security, and operability as focus

- Evaluate vendors, platforms, and protocols for long-term fit

- Support internal and external customer facing issues as a point of escalation

- Generate, Follow Up, and Complete tickets for internal projects and customers

- Construct valid configurations for implementation based upon design and/or technical concepts

- Implement critical configuration changes as required through established change control processes and systems with little to no guidance

- Participate in daily meetings to review changes and underlying impacts

Education, Skills and background (incl. Education and Experience Requirements)

- 10-14 years of experience working on network equipment in an ISP style environment or a large NOC

- 7-10 years of experience with Fortinet, Arista, and/or Cisco hardware and software

- CCIE or JNCIE certified or equivalent level of knowledge

- Expert understanding and deployment experience in the following technologies:

- IP Protocols (ICMP, UDP, TCP)

- Firewalls (VPNs, Policies)

- Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF)

- Multicast Routing (IGMP, PIM)

- NAT (Static, Dynamic)

- Network Sniffers (TCP/IP Analysis)

- NTP, PTP and Network Timing

- Ability to analyse and diagnose problems and lead system recovery effectively