Company Description

Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,700 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.

Job Description

MarketAxess is seeking an enterprise network engineer with cloud and automation experience. The qualified candidate should have 10+ years of network engineering experience, working across a wide range of telecommunication technologies and services, including LAN, WAN, security, wireless, remote access, load balancing, and cloud connectivity. The candidate must also exhibit strong professional skills, including communications, self-motivated, adaptability, and dependability. Candidates can work remotely but must work 10am - 6pm Eastern Time, and come to the New York City office every three months for one week.

What You’ll Do

• Automating core infrastructure operations
• General route/switch engineering and life cycle management
• Lead network cloud/infrastructure configurations, standards and documentation to effectively deliver network solutions
• Manage the lifecycle management process for existing and new technologies.
• Define and document technical requirements for new capabilities 
• Develop proposals and communicate outcomes that address business value/risk and gain stakeholder approval.
• Collaborate closely with peer IT organizations 
• Highest escalation point for critical incidents
• Provide training and technical leadership to all key stakeholder organizations ensuring successful knowledge transfer and the ability to be self-sufficient in support of their primary roles.
• Ability to architect repeatable, reliable, and scalable solutions with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, metrics, and disaster recovery

Who You Are

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
• Independently gather requirements and translate those into solutions
• Competent in using Microsoft Office suite for effective collaboration and communications
• Strong analytical skills, able to leverage complex data to identify opportunities, recognize problems, and draw logical conclusions.
• Ability to produce and present technical information to broad audiences
• Good temperament during stressful situations
• Highly collaborative team member
• Available to work off hours during the evenings and weekends as required, sometimes with little advanced notice. Additionally, participate in a week-long on-call rotation.
• Working knowledge of network features and protocols such as spanning tree, TCP/IP V4/V6, SIP, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, MLS, HSRP, GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, NTP, and HTTP
• Automate first mentality
• Knowledge of Carrier Services – WAN Circuits, MPLS, VPNS, VRFs, DWDM, Frame Relay, Point to Point, OCx, DS3, E/T1s
• Knowledge of Agile and working in a cross functional SCRUM
• Expertise of networking infrastructure suppliers and service offerings including; Cisco, NSX, F5 Networks, Palo Alto, and Bluecoat.
• Experience with applications and services such as; Cisco ACS/ISE, Ansible, Terraform, AppViewX, Solarwinds, Jira, and GreyLog.
• Expertise with the following operating systems; Cisco IOS/NXOS, NSX, F5 AS3, and Linux
• Experience in load balancer design, SSL termination, and application/solution design (L4-7)
• Network Cloud experience – AWS
• Network security experience – firewall, F5 load balancing, NSX, etc.
• Routing and Switching management experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical/IT field
• 10+ years’ experience in Enterprise Network Engineering
• 3+ years’ experience in Network Cloud Connectivity

Desired Skills

• Network Security: 5 years
• NSX-T Experience:1-3 years
• Switching: 8 years
• Preferred Certifications: CCDP, CCNP, CCIE, AWS certifications
• AWS Advanced Networking certification – Required

What’s In It For You

• In addition to working on cutting-edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
• Healthcare and wellness options
• 401(k) match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Training and tuition assistance
• Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.

Additional Information

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