Network Engineer - Banking & Finance

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access, and bespoke hedging and investment solutions to institutional clients worldwide. Underpinned by proprietary client technology portals and investment grade financial resilience, the organization connects global markets through high-performance, low-latency infrastructure.

The business is seeking a Network Automation Engineer to join an international engineering team building and automating critical connectivity across enterprise, cloud, and global financial exchange environments. Combining hands-on network delivery with architectural influence, the successful candidate will design resilient topologies and streamline operational workflows through modern infrastructure automation.

Ready to take your expertise to the next level? Get in touch today!

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and support global network infrastructure.
• Automate configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting using Python and Ansible.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Deliver cloud connectivity and network security improvements.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across LAN, WAN and firewall environments.

Skills/Must Have:

• Strong routing and switching knowledge, including BGP, OSPF and multicast.
• Hands-on firewall experience, ideally Palo Alto.
• Strong AWS and Azure networking knowledge.
• Practical scripting, network automation and Terraform-based IaC experience.
• Experience across technologies such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista or Aruba.
• Financial services, exchange connectivity and low-latency experience are advantageous, alongside CCNP-level expertise or equivalent.
• An opportunity to broaden your technical scope, contribute to architecture decisions and make a direct impact on infrastructure supporting global markets.

Salary:

• Up to £120k + Bonus