Description
As the High-Skills Network Technical Lead, your main responsibility will be to ensure the ongoing support and reliability of all components within the LSEG ecosystem, including platforms, networks, applications, and services.
In this role, you will provide 4th-line support to the Network Products and Services functions, ensuring the operational stability and adaptability of the LSEG global network.
Your key focus will be on creating and maintaining software automation that improves the reliability and availability of digital platforms and their software delivery pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain systems, software, and applications across various domains, achieving the highest quality outcomes.
- Make technical design and amendment decisions independently, leading the workload effectively.
- Analyze data and understand business requirements, translating them into technical requirements that align with infrastructure and network capacity needs.
- Complete relevant reporting documentation, adhering to internal and external standards.
- Collaborate with other business areas to schedule and coordinate capacity and network upgrades, meeting service level objectives.
- Lead upgrades, coordinating efforts with internal teams and third parties.
- Build accurate documentation and monitor system performance to contribute to business activities and continuous improvement.
- Support the deployment of emergent engineering patterns across development teams.
- Coordinate design work within the infrastructure and network domain.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in an IT-related field.
- Significant experience in technology-focused positions.
- Extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols, preferably with CCIE certification.
- Proven experience in network products and services, ideally working with Cisco, Juniper, and Arista technologies.
- Expertise spanning LAN, WAN, HSRP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, GRE, BGP, and OSPF.
- Knowledge of multicast concepts, including IGMP, RP, and PIM.
- Familiarity with low-latency technologies commonly deployed in the financial sector.
- Excellent knowledge of network packet analysis and packet capture tools.
- Experience with Data Centre Networking, including Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Cisco ACI, VxLAN, and related technologies.
- Understanding of cloud environments and network security.
- Familiarity with load balancing technologies, TCP/IP, and multicast in internet environments.
- Proficiency in required Service Management processes, ideally with ITIL knowledge.
- Exposure to the financial sector and its associated technologies.
- Proficiency in Python and Ansible.
- Strong spoken and written English language skills, combined with client management abilities.