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Senior Network Engineer

ION
Lakewood, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

Role

The Senior Network Engineer role is based within the Americas Hosted Data Centre department in Somerset, NJ. The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for supporting and maintaining ION's regional and global infrastructure.

The salary range is $140,000 - $160,000 annual performance bonus. Salary is negotiable depending on experience and skills.

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What's Exciting About This opportunity?

  • You’ll have ownership of your role and projects
  • You are not siloed into one area
  • Exposure to lots of varied, complex technologies and great opportunity to learn. You will be a true hands-on generalist that builds a broad and deep skill set.
  • Promotable, dynamic career track with opportunity to get involved in more complex project work

Responsibilities

  • Deploy network infrastructure following established design standards
  • Perform general maintenance on routers, switches and firewalls
  • Troubleshoot issues in a complex Internet / Extranet environment
  • Interact professionally with customers and vendors to determine design requirements.
  • Provide Level 1 through Level 4 network support
  • Participate in on-call rotation
  • Provide occasional 1st level server support such as racking and disc swaps
  • Occasional travel to remote Fidessa Data Centres in the NJ Area.
  • International Travel to Canada, Mexico, Chile and Brazil (2 weeks a year)
  • Shift Pattern

  • Two Shifts Available : Monday - Friday 7 : 00 AM - 3 : 30 PM AND 10 : 30 AM - 7 PM
  • Saturday work as required (approx 2X a month for a few hours) with additional production pay
  • Occasional on-call rotation with additional on-call pay
  • Required Experience and Competencies

  • 6 years of network engineering experience in an enterprise environment
  • Proficient configuring Juniper routers, switches and firewalls via command line interface.
  • Experience configuring with Cisco routers / switches and Arista switches
  • Enterprise experience with firewalls such as Checkpoint, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto
  • In-Depth knowledge of routing protocols : BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, PIM, RIP
  • In-Depth knowledge of Layer2 protocols : STP, 802.1q, VPC, LACP
  • Must have knowledge of traffic engineering and QoS
  • Proficient with configuring and troubleshooting VPNs
  • Proficient with network packet capture and analysis
  • Proficient with creating network diagrams with MS Visio
  • A thorough understanding of TCP / IP
  • Experience working with Network Monitoring Systems e.g. PRTG, Nagios
  • Clear, accurate and concise written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail
  • Good time management and planning skills
  • Organised and able to use initiative to prioritise work and able to adapt to changing workload priorities
  • Takes ownership of delegated tasks and sees things through to completion
  • Enthusiastic and highly motivated
  • Calmness under pressure and ability to remain focussed on service
  • Ability to create and maintain strong working relationships
  • Must have an automobile and be able to drive to New Jersey data centers
  • Desired Experience and Competencies

  • Bi-lingual in English / Spanish is a plus
  • Experience with network automation a plus
  • Experience with automation : Ansible, Python, etc a plus
  • Fintech, finance, banking experience is a huge plus
  • About ION

    We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. More than 40% of the world’s largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

    Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.

    Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.

    With over 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group.

    At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities : To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.

    Learn more at iongroup.com.

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