Responsibilities:
- Coordinate maintenance of security-related systems (Anti-Virus, Firewalls, Content filtering, Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Management tools, Client VPN, MFA etc.)
- Perform and/or support technical security assessments, security consulting, design reviews, code reviews, and vulnerability testing to highlight risk
- Using tools and automation to proactively monitor and assure latency compliance and quickly respond to any issues
- Successfully receive technical escalations and independently provide solutions to resolve high impacting network incidents. Expertly conduct root-cause analysis for major problems and drive the troubleshooting to resolution
- Conduct cyber risk assessment in support of technology initiatives to help identify IT related risk and determine appropriate controls to mitigate risks. • Monitor, track, and manage risk mitigations and exceptions and ensure adequate monitoring capability is incorporated into solutions.
Skills Required:
- The successful candidate will have 10+ years experience in a similar position in an equivalent Financial Services firm; (candidates without financial services experience can also be considered if they have exceptional technical networking skills especially from service provider/ carrier, or network equipment resellers)
- Hands-on experience with Data Network skills; expert IP routing and LAN switching troubleshooting skills
- An excellent knowledge of data networking principles as well as an excellent knowledge of the specific technologies to manage and support high-speed networks;
- Expert-level ability to decode packet captures and identify network and application issues;
- Hardware: Cisco Switches and Routers, Juniper Switches and Routers, Arista Switches, Nortel/BNT Switches, Adva and Ciena DWDM, F5 BigIP Load Balancers;
- Ethernet technologies: SPT, 812.1Q, VPC, Multilayer Switching; VXLAN ; Leaf-Spine IP Fabric
- WAN technologies: SONET/SDH, MPLS, Classic TDM;
- Protocols: OSPF, BGP, RIP, TCP/IP;
- Multicast routing: PIM, IGMP, MSDP;
- Expert-level ability to decode packet captures and identify network and application issues.
- Low Latency Specific Tools: Corvil Latency Management Platform, Endace Probes, nPulse Hammerhead probes;
- Certifications: CCIE or equivalent is desirable. Juniper, Arista certifications (either one) required;
- Financial Market Data, Client and Exchange connectivity is a strong plus;
- Experience with scripting languages, and/or network deployment automation / orchestration tools is a strong plus
