Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer at talisman Senior Network Engineer at talisman in Des Plaines, Illinois Posted in about 5 hours ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Operating, monitoring, and enhancing multi-environment global networks, including planning/executing maintenance, redundancy, and expansion objectives
• Providing technical thought leadership in the development of our next-generation networks
• Monitoring and improving network performance, scalability, and latency by performing benchmark evaluations, lab evaluations, and capacity planning reviews
• Diagnosing and resolving complex network issues through technical knowledge, tenacity, creativity, and team collaborations
• Designing and creating solutions for automation, deployments, and diagnostics
• Working with vendors to evaluate and prototype new devices and designs

Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience working in the network engineering field
• Demonstrated expertise supporting latency sensitive global networks
• Experience in planning and leading complex network projects involving design, configuration, and implementation of network infrastructure, including routers, switches, load balancers, security, and VPN appliances
• Expert level knowledge of tuning dynamic routing protocols
• Excellent working knowledge and experience with multicast
• Understanding of EVPN VxLAN to create overlay/underlay networks
• Experience supporting Internet infrastructure as in site-to-site VPNs and firewalls
• Designing, building, and managing layer 1 network devices
• Exposure to RF network design with an understanding of the fundamentals
• In-depth understanding of the TCP/IP network stack and the ability to troubleshoot network related issues using relevant tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, etc.
• Strong scripting ability and automation experience; Python and Ansible strongly preferred
• Prior experience in finance or trading domains is preferred