Monday, May 03, 2010

NETWORK ENGINEER - Financial Securities - (US-NY-New York)


NETWORK ENGINEER - Financial Securities - (US-NY-New York)

Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
TWJA2

Our client, located in the Wall Street area of Manhattan wants to hire a full time employee as a Senior Network Engineer. In this role, you would be the lead planner and network engineer working on trading systems.financial trading environment experience needed. This is a hands-on automous role requiring the following experience. 

Cisco Nexus knowledge 
Project Management skills 
Change Management methodologies impacting overall systems and projects 
Third level support 
Documentation 
Responsibilities to include: 

• Lead planner, and network engineer 
• Consistently improves on knowledge, experience, teamwork and education (BS, MS and Certifications) 
• Uses applicable methodologies, tools, standards & procedures to accomplish project goals and system troubleshooting. 
• Provides high level distributed system architecture documentation, concepts, practices and procedures. 
• Provides in depth mentoring, training, leadership and education to group of network & computer analysts. 
• Manages telecom vendor relationship & evaluations. 
• Makes analysis & modification(s) to trading system communications. 
• Responsible for analyzing and proactively managing problems and making final decisions that impact overall system(s) and project(s). 
• Active participant and educator in technology community (within and outside of workplace). 
• Ensure change management methodologies are being used for network projects. 
• Interfaces with IT and business groups for Network related projects. 

Required Experience 

- provide training on new design and project being implemented 

- provide training on new technologies and new hardware platforms 
- research, document and present new technologies 

§ Customer Service: 
- final escalation point for isolating, troubleshooting and documenting network related problems 
- liaison with other technical groups 

- liaison with the business to provide information of the network for new initiatives 
- level 3 support for any kind of issue 
- involvement and ownership of network related issues 

§ Quality of produced work: 
- comply to Change Management process 

- deliver quality documentation 
- ensure work / configuration is delivered with high quality standards 


§ Project Management: 
- comply to PMO methodology 
- manage and deliver network project in a controlled manner 

§ Ensure that projects are delivered on time, in budget and with out interruption to the business 

§ Budget control: 
- make sure cost containment is maintained through-out the network project and in general 

- provide cost analysis to network project 

§ Education / Experience: 
- network / security certification is a plus 
- bachelor degree or equivalent job experience required / masters in IT preferred 
- project management experience 
- Cisco Nexus platform 
- technology industry experience 
- financial service experience 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. 

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