Architect, Network Engineering at Intercontinental Exchange (Atlanta, GA)

Job Purpose
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and business challenges in the financial sector. The Network Architect within the ICE Network Engineering team provides leadership in network design, validation, deployment, maintenance and 24x7 operational supports.
The Architect will lead the network designs in several environments for transformative projects with ultra-low latency requirements. The successful candidate will work on further advancing one of the largest and global financial networks with a wide variety of critical services (Exchange access, clearing, market data distribution, customer connectivity and hosting, Enterprise). The role requires in-depth knowledge of IP/MPLS routing and switching, Multicast, DWDM transport services as well as advanced expertise in low latency hardware. The successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment demonstrating strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities and the highest degree of professionalism.
Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, support and maintain mixed vendor network infrastructure

• Develop, document and publish architectural standards and designs

• Assist ICE staff with problem solving and escalation procedures

• Understand and follow operational policies/procedures and promote adherence to same

• Provide technical knowledge needed to ensure safe, effective, and efficient changes to the network infrastructure

• Assist with development of policies and procedures for maintaining network infrastructure

• Collaborate and work closely with all other IT teams

• Lead Incident investigations, diagnosis, and service restoration and always give priority to the resolution of incidents

• Be a subject matter expert, able to provide guidance to other Engineers (troubleshooting, design, on-boarding, risk mitigation, operational improvement)

• Informal Trainer to Level II; ensures Level II skills are constantly growing through support and guidance.

• Maintain technical vendor relations to understand and influence technical product roadmaps
  

Knowledge And Experience

• In depth knowledge of general network principles and technology and also how to apply them in a service oriented mission critical environment.

• Ability to grasp very complex architectural concepts

• Ability to lead technical projects from design through implementation and rollout.

• Breadth and understanding of current and future network technology direction.

• Extensive network routing protocol, MPLS and troubleshooting skills in all of BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RSVP and LDP.

• Extensive Knowledge of IP Multicast - RP, PIM, IGMP and MSDP

• In depth knowledge of Juniper products and JUNOS.

• In depth knowledge of Arista products and EOS.

• Experience working with Network Carriers to design Wide-Area Networks

• 10+ years experience hands on support and troubleshooting of networks

• 6+ years experience with design and implementation on complex networks

• Understanding of network management, security and monitoring

• Excellent writing and documentation skills

• Excellent customer service attitude

• Ability to operate effectively and professionally under pressure

• Experience working on financial and HFT networks with Good understanding exchange protocols (FIX etc.)

• Expert Level network certifications CCIE, JNCIE. Etc.

• F5, Checkpoint, or Palo Alto advanced certification

• RF wireless (Microwave/Millimetre waves) Technologies experience

• Automation and scripting experience

• Unix/Linux system administration

• Running and analysing sniffer traces with deep TCP/IP protocol understanding.

• In-depth hardware knowledge of switches and routers (Internal chipsets specifications, TCAM and memory details, buffering capabilities and multicast replication details).

• Masters Degree in Computer Engineering or related field preferred

• Good programming skills (Java, Python)
  

Additional Information

• Job Type Standard

• Schedule Full-time

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