Job Description

Network Engineering is a global organisation that is part of the Foundational Infrastructure business unit and is based in multiple locations around the world. We engineer technologies, products and solutions across the entire Goldman Sachs network. This includes networks hosting critical market data, exchange connectivity and e-commerce services, cloud connectivity, the global core backbone, the design of the physical network supporting campus based users, interconnectivity to regional offices. We are also involved in the development of software solutions to support all aspects of network automation. The team ensures that knowledge, best practises and expertise are shared between regions promoting teamwork and collaboration. 

Network Engineering is seeking an experienced Internet (Perimeter) Network Engineer with strong technical, analytical and communication skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Environmental ownership for global Internet perimeter networks
• Taking an active role in the stability of the platform by providing senior production management support for business impacting and complex problems
• Function as a senior level escalation point during incident management activities
• Working with internal business facing clients to understand their requirements, translating into technology solutions and developing new solutions as required
• Providing subject matter expertise when collaborating on cross platform projects with teams responsible for Collaboration, Information Security, Compute, Storage and Data Centre
• Introduction, communication and development of strategic networking technologies to provide additional scalability and functionality
• Taking an active role in the product lifecycle; new technology introduction through to demise
• Owning the delivery of a variety of concurrent projects in varying scale from small to very large
• Experience working with networking product vendors & telecoms service providers

SKILL / EXPERIENCE

• Extensive technical experience in engineering and implementing networking technologies within a large enterprise, preferably with some exposure to the Financial Sector
• In-depth knowledge of Internet perimeter networks, external connectivity, security standards; also cloud connectivity, data centre design principles, products and protocols would be beneficial
• Good appreciation of Network Security architectures, models and methodologies, authentication schemes, encryption techniques and standards
• Design and product experience with cloud based proxy solutions – Zscaler, iBoss, Palo Alto
• Design and product experience with CDN/DDoS mitigation providers and also external/Internet monitoring solutions – Akamai /Prolexic, Lumen, Cloudflare
• Design and product experience with firewalls – Juniper Netscreen/JunOs, Palo Alto, Fortinet
• Experience with remote ISP monitoring tools – Cisco Thousand Eyes
• In-depth knowledge of WAN/LAN topologies and protocols, networking technologies. (Ethernet, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, PIM, SNMP, MPLS)
• Technical experience using many of the following: Cisco Routers, Switches, Nexus, ASR, NCS, ISR product lines, Layer4-7 switching / High Availability (Citrix Netscaler or Avi/NSX-LB preferred)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Highly self-motivated and ability to work independently in a global team environment
• Good project management skills (large network deployments and cross-discipline project deliverables)
• Desirable - experience of application performance optimisation and troubleshooting through packet level analysis
• Desirable - experience with automating Network functions, software scripting and/or development experience, e.g. Automation & accessing web based services via APIs

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS 

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