Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a broker-dealer, was founded in the in and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a broker-dealer, was established in the in . 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.
Seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the Network Engineering team in the APAC region. You will be responsible for the design, planning, implementation / deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the firm’s global network infrastructure. 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.
Technical Qualifications :
- years of technical experience in networking, network security and network operations.
- Working understanding of open-standard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
- Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis, packet captures and event correlation tools.
- Experience building out multi sized datacenters, campuses and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles, industry standards and best practices.
- Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
- Fundamental knowledge in multiple technical domains such as server, storage, desktop and security.
- Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions in AWS and Azure
- Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F and Aruba Silver-Peak
- Understanding of cloud hosted SaaS solutions for end user remote and branch secure connection.
- Working knowledge on building and implementing network automation that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting networks that host trading applications.
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 train junior engineers and help assit them with on issues or projectsComfortable 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, and conducting meetings with team members and stakeholdersExhibit 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.Solid communications skills. Fluency in Japanese and English requiredVendors and Protocols :
Networking : Arista, Cisco, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)Firewall and SaaS : Palo Alto, Prisma AccessLoad-Balancers and WAFs : F Big-IP, Cloud-FlareDDOS : Cloud-Flare and RadwareNetwork Observability : cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Telegraf, LogstashClouds : AWS, AzureWireless : Cisco and Juniper MISTNetworking Protocols : BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST+, LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, eVPNProgramming and Automation : Python, JSON, Jinja, Ansible, YAML, Itential workflow automationMicro-Segmentation : IllumioResponsibilities :
Deploy Networks with guidance from the Architectrure team :Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to formulate and implement a network architecture built on resiliency and scalability.Develop standardization and deployment documents guided by the Architecture team 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- 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.Network and Automation Innovation with guidance from DevOps Leads :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 can lead or compliment a given architecture.Apply innovative thinking to help drive observability using streaming telemetry with real time alerting and AI integrations.Network Performance Monitoring with guidance from Architecture team :Enhance and maintain network monitoring / observability infrastructure to support business stability and continuity.Deploy the framework to monitor and test network performance within a spine / leaf architecture and private wan network.Deploy the framework to monitor stability and network connectivity to servers, workstations and telephony appliances connected to the network.Lead Engineer (APAC) :Act as a senior engineer to Junior engineers helping the on issues and projectsAssess technical bottlenecks and process problems that team members may encounter and provide direction.Conduct daily and or weekly meetings to track progress on projects and or issues assigned to Junior engineers deliverables or issues.Act as the point of escalation in the APAC region for network related issuesAt Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer. We practice equal opportunity for all, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with qualified disabilities, as appropriate, under applicable law.