Senior Network Engineer

Man Group

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Update day: 12-05-2023

Location: London

Category: Information Technology Social Work / Community Services

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Job type: Full-time

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Purpose of role
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy, and we are constantly looking at better ways of doing things. Our culture embraces change, and change is the norm rather than the exception in a constantly evolving organisation and industry.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer to join a highly skilled team where your experience plus creative thinking will be fully utilised. The role has a balance of BAU and Project work which comprises of day-to-day support and administration of the estate. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with other Infrastructure teams as well as technology stakeholders spread across our global offices and data centres.
The role offers the opportunity to work on traditional technologies plus exciting new ones as we evolve what do and how we do it at Man Group. With the management of the estate including routers, switches, firewalls etc there will also be exposure to other DevOps aligned methods of automation, real time monitoring and metrics collections using latest Open-Source toolsets; Grafana, Elasticsearch etc.
Specific responsibilities
  • Administering and managing the Network estate
  • Working with peers in the other technology teams to find the best solutions for Man Group.
  • Show a willingness to learn about the technologies in this area
  • Ensure the rollout of a standards-based estate using relevant configuration management tools
  • Ensuring high availability of the infrastructure and minimising the duration and impact of any outages
  • Ensuring that changes to the network estate across both mission critical, and non-production servers are carried out consistently and reliably
  • Providing network support and advice to other Infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users.
  • Maintain network security standards across the estate.
  • Providing operational support to the network Infrastructure within Man group and participating in the on-call rota.
  • Troubleshooting and remediating performance and functional network issues.
  • Delivery of new or existing projects within the network estate.
Essential Experience
  • Willingness and ability to innovate
  • Knowledge of the ITIL management framework and an understanding of how to apply this correctly in an agile, medium sized business
  • Good communication skills
  • Flexible working ethos Weekend and Out of hours work
  • Flexibility to broaden and develop skills in any area as required
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Cisco Networking including ACI
  • Citrix Netscalers
  • Arista Networks
  • Infoblox
  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • MPLS
  • Sound routing knowledge
  • The ability to prioritise projects and tasks
Desirable Experience:
  • Previous experience in a Financial Enterprise organisation
  • Experience with offsite cloud offerings and installations
  • Development and interpretation of systematic performance monitoring and metrics
  • A desire to learn and understand more about the Business environment in which you work
  • Infrastructure as Code and automation
  • Experience in scripting including Python
  • Understanding and experience of some of the technologies listed below:
  • Ansible, Terraform, Bitbucket, Python, Check_MK, Grafana, ELK stack.Atlassian Jira and Confluence platforms
Our Culture, Values and Benefits at Man
Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equal opportunities. At Man Group we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business and this is embedded in our culture and values. There are a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and that encourage inclusion and diversity across our firm and the industry. Man Group is a Signatory of the Women in Finance Charter and the Race at Work Charter. Man Group is also a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact
HRSO@man.com
.
https://www.man.com/diversity
Man Group supports many charities, and global initiatives. We support professional training and development, and requests for flexible or part-time working. Employees are also offered two ’Mankind’ days of paid leave per year as part of the Man Charitable Trust’s community volunteering programme.
We offer comprehensive, firm-wide employee benefits including competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Additional benefits are tailored to local markets and may include private medical coverage, discounted gym membership and wellbeing programmes.
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Deadline: 26-06-2023

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