Job Title:  Network Operations/Implementations Engineer.

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Chief Technical Office

Location: New York

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120K and $140K/year*

Company Overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

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Department Overview

Our Network Technology team is looking to recruit a Network Operations/Implementations Engineer. The candidate should have strong networking technical skills to join their global facing Network Operations team for US. The team’s primary responsibilities include the support, maintenance and installation of network infrastructure to support business critical services for the bank, with the major vendor technologies being Cisco, Fortinet, F5, Zscaler, Bluecoat and Corvil.

Role / Principal Accountabilities

They are looking for a highly motivated, experienced Network Engineer to fill a position which consists primarily of project implementation activities and upgrade programs with operational support responsibilities. The role will provide hands on opportunities with traditional and NextGen networking and network management technologies by supporting the refresh of our network estate. The ‘Follow The Sun’ support function is also adopted within the small team including on-call cover and is ideal for a network engineer who would like to enhance or maintain a broad technical skill set within the data networking arena. The candidate will be expected to deal with the various business divisions directly relating to operational support and incident management therefore experience of working in a corporate banking environment would be ideal.

Key Objectives Critical to Success of the Role

• The ideal candidate should have knowledge and experience of the various networking technologies commonly deployed within the Investment bank environment including Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000 and 2000 series hardware.
• Possess relevant experience across enterprise and public cloud networking technologies
• Ability to demonstrate effective troubleshooting skills within the network arena providing support as required.
• Be able to pro-actively self manage project delivery and work as a team player
• Undertake respective incident management administration tasks
• Work closely with global engineering counterparts to deliver consistent, stable, scalable network solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively to business and technical stakeholders within the business for operational, project and deployment activities as well as have an appreciation of the risk associated with supporting a high-profile network environment.
• Ability to join existing on-call support rotation to provide emergency support should the need arise

Skills & Experience Required

Candidate must have strong technical skills combined with the ability to work within a global team, must be a team player and have excellent communication skills. Must be self-motivated; be able to drive projects to meet agreed timescales whilst working with minimal supervision.

• Experienced network engineer qualified to CCNP level or above
• Strong network operations (complex troubleshooting) and deployment (project) experience within an enterprise/financial environment.
• Good knowledge and experience of core networking technologies including routing, switching, multicast, network security and network management on a Cisco IOS/NX-OS infrastructure
• Good knowledge of Cisco LAN architectures including working with Cisco Nexus platforms and EVPN/VXLAN & SDA deployments
• Familiar with utilizing Cisco management platforms like DCNM & DNAC to manage configuration deployment
• Experience in the deployment and support of VPN solutions (Cisco ASA/Firepower/AnyConnect) to support both remote access and client/vendor services. 
• Extensive knowledge of network routing protocols, predominately OSPF & BGP and their deployment within a virtualized environment
• An understanding of Network Security including Fortinet competence for Firewall administration and support as well as ISE and NAC deployments as network authentication solutions
• Knowledge of WAN architectures
• Ability to configure both LTM & GTM F5 load balancers,
• Experience of working with Wireless technologies including controllers and Access Points and associated management platforms
• Good working knowledge of Corvil deployments and dashboard configurations
• Experience of using protocol analyzers &  decoding skills (Wireshark interpretation)
• Competent in using network monitoring tools (Opsware, SevOne, Corvil, ThousandEyes, SMARTS)
• Experience of using scripting languages i.e. Ansible/Python
• Good understanding of ITIL principles including Change Management best practices

Knowledge & experience to compensate the role

• Investment Banking/Financial Services experience
• A knowledge of the key Market Data Services (Bloomberg, Reuters etc.) that are critical to the business and their methods of delivery.
• Experience in configuring and managing Bluecoat proxy platforms
• Exposure to cloud proxy solution like Zscaler
• Project management (design and implementation) of network projects
• Cisco IPT including protocols such as MGCP, SIP, H.323 and other voice protocols with ability to perform analysis and reporting an advantage
• Exposure to AVI load balancer technologies
• Good competency of Unix and Windows OS

*base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer