Network Engineer - Low Latency - AWS - Palo Alto - Financial Services
Excellent opportunity for a skilled, hands-on Network Engineer with Low Latency experience and strong expertise in AWS & Palo Alto to join a leading Financial Services company in London. The role involves working within the Infrastructure team, reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure, and collaborating with developers, stakeholders, and operations to build and maintain high-performance network infrastructure supporting trading operations.
Role Responsibilities
1. Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure cloud and datacenter infrastructure for high-performance trading.
2. Build advanced AWS networking solutions (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect) across accounts and regions.
3. Optimize low-latency connectivity, support colocated servers near exchanges, and implement cost-efficient network solutions.
4. Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD, applying GitOps principles.
5. Build resilient, self-healing network systems.
6. Optimize infrastructure for low latency and high availability.
7. Collaborate with developers on performance tuning and troubleshoot network issues across regions.
8. Ensure adherence to security best practices and standards such as AWS CIS Benchmark.
9. Support multi-region and multi-account AWS environments.
10. Support high-performance or financial trading systems as needed.
Professional Experience and Skills
* Advanced AWS knowledge, ideally at AWS Professional Certification level.
* Extensive experience with AWS networking services: Transit Gateway, VPC, Direct Connect, VPC peering.
* Strong understanding of on-premises datacenter networking and colocation environments.
* Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible for automation.
* Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps.
* Knowledge of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (EKS).
* Experience with monitoring tools such as OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
* Understanding of security standards and best practices.
* Experience designing low-latency network architectures.
* Excellent communication and documentation skills.
* Background in supporting high-performance trading or financial systems preferred.
If interested, please apply!
Keywords: Low Latency, Network Engineer, AWS, Palo Alto, Trading, Exchange, VPC, BGP, EKS, Ansible, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Platform, Prisma, Twistlock
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