Network Engineering Lead

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join and lead the Network Engineering/Architecture team. You will be responsible for the design, planning, implementation/deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the firm’s global network infrastructure and architecture. You must enjoy technical challenges, building, and enhancing environments, testing, documenting network designs and staying on the cutting edge by researching and innovating next generation designs.

The individual needs to show a keen interest in technology, this role requires an individual with effective communication and interpersonal skills that can establish and maintain an excellent relationship with technology and finance teams.

People Qualifications:

• Extraordinary technical communicator who is skilled and experienced with connecting the dots for organizations as well as influencing and advising on organizational strategies.
   
• Ability to persuade and change the technical thinking of others in a leadership role while maintaining strong relationships.
   
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment that sometimes has minimal direction but requires you to have proactive discussions to help drive projects and initiatives.
   
• Delivering under tight deadlines while multitasking, prioritizing projects, communicating priority updates to team members, and conducting meetings with team members and stakeholders
   
• Exhibit critical-thinking and the ability to creatively solve problems.
   
• Motivated and inventive, has a committed drive for contributing and making a difference.
   
• Experience working on application and infrastructure implementation projects and ensuring results conform to network architecture standards.

Vendors and Protocols:

• Networking: Cisco, Arista, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)
   
• Firewall and SaaS: Palo Alto, Prisma Access
   
• Load-Balancers and WAFs: F5 Big-IP, Cloud-Flare, A10 Networks (optional)
   
• DDOS: Cloud-Flare and Radware.
   
• Network Observability: cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Telegraf, Logstash
   
• Clouds: AWS, Azure
   
• Wireless: Cisco and Juniper MIST
   
• Networking Protocols: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST+, LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, eVPN.
   
• Programming and Automation: Python, JSON, Jinja, Ansible, YAML.
   

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to formulate and implement a network architecture built on resiliency and scalability.
   
• Develop standardization and deployment documents with team members that drives the install and configuration of networking hardware.
   
• Evaluate pre-production designs and standards in a development environment using success criteria for product and platform selection.
   
• Develop standardization for day-2 network infrastructure deployments, configurations, monitoring and automation.
   
• Research and evaluate products doing proof-of-concept analysis across multiple vendors which also includes functionality and cost.
   
• Develop strategies to conduct bi-annual resiliency and network infrastructure failover testing. 
   
• Drive cost optimization by identifying areas within the network infrastructure that can be consolidated or are underutilized.
   
• Develop framework for networking solutions with innovation and emerging technologies across multiple vendors.
   
• Apply innovative thinking to help drive new business and technology initiatives that keeps the firm on the cutting edge.
   
• Understand full-stack architectures inclusive of Enterprise-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD deployment models, Enterprise Network Orchestration & Automation, Source of Truth, ChatOps, ITSM (ServiceNow) and knowing how open source c