Head of Network Engineering

Corporate Title: Executive Director

Department: Technology

Location: New York

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $200,000 and $225, 000/year*

 

As the agency-model execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated subsidiaries provide brokerage services to clients in over 60 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. In the US, Instinet also offers a boutique-model Equity Research offering to assist their clients in the pursuit of alpha generation in a changing landscape. Over the course of its 50+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies, and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

This Head of Network Architecture & Engineering will be responsible for managing the global low latency trading & corporate networks. This will include ensuring a resilient, diverse network to global stock exchanges, Instinet Colocation & Data Centre sites, branch offices and our end-clients that enables consistent low microsecond access.

The job will suit a confident, enthusiastic and flexible character who possesses strong technical and communication skills and good organisational capabilities; a patient individual who is able to demonstrate independent initiative within the work environment, yet be a highly cooperative ‘team-player’. 

Provide technical guidance to other members of the team or peers and oversee operational teams.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the Subject Matter Expert for network level technical support for a global voice and data network.
• Provide technical expertise on network connectivity through the Internet, private, and High Frequency Trading networks for client and application connectivity.
• Design and implement best of breed network and security-based solutions as part of a global team.
• Manage and provide update reports on project delivery.
• Ability to handle numerous separate projects concurrently.
• Fault investigation, data analysis and solution implementation.
• Maintain relationships with third party vendors, providing network connectivity and hardware provision.
• Provide a professional and courteous service at all times as a representative Instinet Infrastructure Group.
• Identify and analyse fault calls using all the resources available in a timely manner, ensuring all new information corresponding to problems is documented.
• Manage call tracking to promptly meet defined Service Level Agreements. This also involves updating tracking systems with appropriate updates and communicating them to the relevant people or groups.
• Work on planned strategic migration and hardware refresh projects.

 

SKILLS ASSESSMENT

• Experience of Cisco and Arista routing and L2/L3 switches, and Checkpoint Firewall technologies, including the configuration and troubleshooting across different hardware platforms
• Experience with QoS, IPSec VPN.

• Experience in Exchange ULL COLO network setup.