Network Engineer

Industry: Banking and Finance, Information Technology

The role is to cover the BAU activities of IP critical infrastructure as well as the load balancing services for Asia. In addition, the engineer will be assisting the adoption of automation use cases in the region as devised by the global team and actively look for new use cases for automation to improve productivity.

• 8+ years relevant experience in network space.
• Deep understanding in F5 / AVI Load Balancing / DNS / DHCP / NTP.
• Working experience on Python or C++.
• Understand RESTful API.
• Shift not required.

TEAM OVERVIEW

The IP – Automation team under Network Services is to provide IP Critical Services, Load Balancing and Network Automation capabilities to the LOB. IP Critical services include DNS / DHCP / NTP which is the backbone of all IT services. Load balancing provides geographical and local server load balancing to application servers. Automation is to provide productivity improvement using scripting, zero human touch in devices provisioning, move, add and change work in the network platform leveraging on Cisco NSO technology.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The role is to cover the BAU activities of IP critical services infrastructure and the load balancing services. The role will be maintaining the currency of the hardware and software platform, platform migration activities, leveraging virtualization platform to gain operation / capital efficiency, devise system solutions, operation plan and user request process enhancement.

• Cross team integration – Automation will touch on all other network verticals.
• Maintain platform currency of load balancing services and onboard new clients to use LB services.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree educated or equivalent in IT, Computer Science or related disciplines.
• Working experience in providing network solution design and implementation to large scale data networks and perimeter security domain.
• Minimum 7 to 9 years working experience in similar capacity in the banking and financial industries.
• Hands-on design and engineering knowledge on network load balancing products such as F5 Network, VMWare AVI, DDI platform BlueCat DNS solutions.
• Certification on vendor products like CCIE / CCNP, F5-CTP etc.
• A strong networking background, with in-depth knowledge on commonly used routing protocols and networking systems including but not limited to use of BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Multicast, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus product suites.
• Understanding security best practices and regulatory requirements and could apply that in their design philosophy.
• Have working experience on deploying virtual network appliances and essence of the underlying virtualization platform like VMWare ESX or NSX-T.
• Good interpersonal skill, a team player with good written and verbal English communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with associates across various time zones.
• An analytical, independent and self-initiative approach to work.
• Knowledge of a second Asian language will be an added benefit.