A London based hedge fund with over $7bn in AUM is searching for a network automation engineer to join a small but efficient network and security team. You’ll be responsible for automating, designing, implementing and maintaining the funds network infrastructure used for 24 hour a day systematic trading activities. 

The infrastructure team offers ample opportunity for career development with team members gaining hands-on experience to various technologies in a squad of collaborative engineers, a far cry from the siloed and bureaucratic nature of traditional banking. 

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement network systems, including firewall configurations, VPN setup, and Security Protocols. 
• Provide support for Network and Automation operations 
• Identify potential issues and automate workflow to improve user efficiency 
• Implement IaC best practices to improve the firm’s network systems with a security first mindset 
• Work closely with DevOps teams on infrastructure automation 
• Keep up to date with the latest network and security trends to continually improve the posture of their systems 
• improve monitoring systems to pre-empt and detect failure and provide alerting to the organisation 
• Monitor/analyse security logs to detect threats and vulnerabilities 
• Take ownership of the end-to-end network infrastructure, from data centre cabling to the network architecture. 

Required skills/experience 

• 5+ years of experience in network and information security 
• Good knowledge of routing and security protocols 
• Familiarity with next generation firewalls, VPN setup, and best practice encryption configuration
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills 

• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment 
• Competent Python Scripting abilities 
• Experience with CI/CD and Source control tools (Git)  
• Competency with Ansible / Terraform 
• Experience with Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana 
• Experience with Cloud Routing (AWS, Azure, GCP) 

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