About the role

  • The role includes ongoing support and reliability of the LSEG ecosystem (Platforms, Networks, Applications, Services, and Websites).
  • The focus of this role is to provide 2nd / 3rd / 4th line support to the Operations and Project Delivery (Implementation) functions, ensuring operational stability and ongoing adaptability of the LSEG global network.
  • Key responsibilities are creating and maintaining software automation that provides the reliability and availability of digital platforms and their software delivery pipelines.
  • Supports the technology lifecycle through the design, build and maintenance of systems
  • Administer LSEG network services, ensuring applications and services perform against baselines levels
  • Monitors network services, focusing on availability, while identifying improvement opportunities
  • Handles service providers (telcos), third parties and partners as required
  • Makes technical design and amendment decisions and independently handles workloads
  • Crafts, reviews and maintains documentation, compliant with LSEG (industry) standards
  • Defines lifecycle management strategies for hardware and software, including capacity considerations
  • Supports the deployment of emerging engineering patterns across development teams
  • Translates business requirements into technical (network) requirements, through analysis of data
  • Collaborates to multiple projects in parallel providing regular updates to multiple partners
  • Builds and validates technical requirements, with emphasis on performance, resilience and operability
  • Gets involved into design work in the infrastructure and network domain, providing innovative solutions.

Requirements

  • Rich experience in identifying and solving network issues, end-to-end.
  • Significant experience of routing and switching protocols (CCIE preferred)
  • Significant experience in network operations, project delivery and engineering
  • Significant experience with network technologies, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet & F5 – at least 2 of these
  • Excellent L2 & L3 network skills, including HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP and OSPF
  • Excellent multicast skills, including IGMP, RP and PIM
  • Excellent knowledge of firewall technologies, including next generation features & function
  • Excellent knowledge of load balancing technologies, including application delivery control
  • Excellent knowledge of network packet captures, tooling and ability to analyse
  • Excellent knowledge of datacenter networking including Software Defined Networking, Cisco ACI, VxLAN
  • Good scripting and automation experience (Python, Ansible, Terraform, GIT, GitLab, Rundeck, etc)
  • Good appreciation of Service Management processes, ideally ITIL knowledgeable, service focused
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, both spoken (verbal) and written English language abilities.

Benefits

  • We enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.
  • LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Job title

Lead Network Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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