5/17 intake/partnership call Monday 10am - she is out of the office until then

Title: ULL Deployment Engineer
Type: Contract - 9 months
Location: New York, NY or Jacksonville, FL

Our client is seeking a ULL Deployment Engineer

Required Skills and Experience:

10+ years’ experience working in a corporate global network environment, including 5 years in financial institutions
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Strict adherence to change procedures and design/configuration guidelines
Able to work independently and as a member of a team
Ability to work under pressure and support multiple projects
Exhibit a high degree of integrity
Self-starter and disciplined in your approach to work
Ability to evaluate emerging risks and solid business judgement
Expertise in routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, HSRP, VRF, NAT, ACL’s and IP Multicast routing
Strong experience in multicast market data
Experience in on-boarding trading clients, exchange/venue and network service providers
Experience in building/supporting extranet and colo (HFAT) network technology
Experience with L1 matrix switching, Netoptics taps and Corvil latency analysis
Experience real-time messaging
Hands-on experience with CISCO ASR/ISR routers, Nexus 3K and 5K, and Catalyst 2K, 3K, 4K and 6K platforms
Familiarity with DNS, DHCP, Netflow
Proficiency in MS Office tools including Excel and Visio

Preferable Skills:

Cisco CCIE certified (Routing and Switching preferred) or equivalent skill level
Network Security knowledge including Extranets, Firewalls and Proxies.
Colo High Frequency Network design, implementation and maintenance
Extensive experience of using JIRA and Confluence will be a distinct advantage
F5 Deployment
Automation Development experience with Python, Terraform etc
Service Management managing SLA and service improvement initiatives
General level of understanding of a broad range of IT infrastructure technologies - DNS, Market Data, Unix / Linux, Wintel Servers, Storage.
Strong understanding of ITIL.