Network Operations Engineer- Systematic Quant Fund

About the role

The successful candidate will join the global infrastructure team and be responsible for managing and maintaining Network Infrastructure and Automations for the firm. With a strict IAC (Infrastructure-as-Code) mindset implemented here, it is crucial that candidates are able to demonstrate operation of complex infrastructure at scale, which have been delivered through a software- and automation-driven mindset. The team will be focused on maintaining the service availability, reliability, and security of the platform. Developing observability tooling, self-healing/event driven automations, and performing troubleshooting activities. Providing ongoing support and operational improvements for existing network infrastructure, whilst building capability to operate a high-performance compute datacentre. Skills & Experience Required: Experience monitoring & resolving incidents across Low Latency LAN, Datacentre LAN, WAN transit, and Internet/cloud connectivity. Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure & collaborating with vendor support teams when required to perform deep investigation. Oversight & development of monitoring dashboards, responding proactively to alerts with appropriate level of priority. Taking responsibility for continuous improvement of alerting and the overall observability stack. Running post-incident reviews finding opportunities to improve the availability and reliability of infrastructure offerings. Delivery of BAU changes through automation wherever possible, working with research & other infrastructure engineering teams in a highly collaborative manner. Perform trend analysis using various data sources aiming to seek out potential issues, improve correlation and find capacity concerns. Defining SLOs to ensure the high availability of network services and infrastructure. Ability to provide considerable support of network automation & associated tooling, such as CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, Ansible, Python, GitOps practices, amongst others. Be responsible for releasing into production environments by providing high quality reviews of merges and scheduled pushes of changes/features/capabilities. Initiative to find opportunities to automate high frequency tasks. Leading the effort to deliver a solution alongside Network Engineering, Infra Automation/DevOps and across functions. You will have good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tooling, e.g. Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana. You will stay informed on industry trends & emerging technologies to ensure the automation and practices remains cutting-edge. Clear networking knowledge at Cisco CCNP level, either through demonstrable experience or verifiable qualifications. Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful. Contact If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch: George Hutchinson-Binks (+44) in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252