Senior Network Engineer

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!

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One of the great things about working for a global company like ours is that we offer exciting opportunities to help you grow, learn and develop.

You’re part of a global team of over 1,900 brilliantly-minded people. We’ve got offices in some of the most inspiring places worldwide – and we’re still growing. Your career here really could take you anywhere…

About Us:

At Iress, we believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. From the world’s most established financial brands to new and disruptive players, we help improve every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that they can work better, every day. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,300 people across Australia, United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.

Quanthouse, part of Iress , is the global independent provider of high performance API-based market data, AI and Algo trading solutions. Quanthouse helps hedge funds, market makers, investment banks, brokers and trading venues achieve optimal trading performance, develop and integrate new trading strategies, comply with regulatory requirements, test existing and new trading infrastructure tools and rationalise operating costs. Quanthouse provides high performance API-based end-to-end systematic trading solutions

About the role:

Iress is looking for a skilled, driven Senior network engineer to hit the ground running and be part of our agile global network team. This position will have focussed initial responsibilities with support from fellow engineers towards the delivery of a strategic Juniper network rollout with these responsibilities widening over time.

About You:

Core Skills, Knowledge and Attributes:

• Excellent understanding of Juniper network architecture using EX and QFX series switches

• Excellent understanding and troubleshooting capabilities using Cisco (Catalyst, Nexus, ASA and ASR series) and Arista (7050, 7150 and 7260 series) within complex market data (multicast and unicast), latency sensitive environments. 

• Excellent understanding of Arista spine and leaf network architecture using eVPN VXLAN technology.

• 10+ years’ experience specializing in designing/supporting large scale LAN/WAN environments and supporting/diagnosing IP based network issues.

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent CCNP/Juniper Equivalent certifications or higher. CCIE written or Juniper equivalent qualifications are highly advantageous. 

• Excellent understanding of all networking technologies – Ethernet, spanning tree, routing protocols (BGP and OSPF), TCP, UDP, FTP/SFTP firewall, WAN technologies and complex market data (multicast and unicast) environments.

• Ability to work autonomously.

• Ability to work proactively and collaboratively with various technical teams within Iress.

• Take ownership of problems and coordinate to resolution (end-to-end).

• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex network issues.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written, including the ability to communicate with non-technical customers and colleagues.

• Ability to work under pressure. 

• Have a “can do” attitude and drive to develop solutions that move Iress forward. 

• Experience with AWS technologies will be advantageous. 

• Previous experience working with firewalls ( Cisco ASA ,Fortigate and Juniper SRX), CoS/QoS, network management tools, network sniffers and VPN Technologies will be advantageous.

Some of our non statutory benefits include:

• Private medical, disability & life insurance

• Hybrid work environment with flexible hours

• Generous leave benefits which include 22 days annual leave and 8 paid days per year to extend your weekends (The Long Weekend)

• Access to various learning and development programs

• Work for a global company with access to global opportunities.

Iress has long supported flexibility in the way people work and have invested heavily in tools and processes to support this. We also believe in the power of teams and the magic that happens when we work together in the right way.

Employment TypeEmployee

Time TypeFull time