Direct placement opportunity - This role must sit local to the following locations: Tampa FL/ Dallas TX/Jersey City NJ/ Mclean VA/ Boston MA - In that order
Top Skills' Details
1. 10-15 Year's experience with strong Network engineering with an emphasis on troubleshoot and problem solving. This role may oversee a small team, but will be expected to be hands on in the network, who can delve into problems, uncover what needs to be fixed and then ensure the right adjustments are made.
2. Extensive experience with Cisco Networking technology: The majority of the network is Cisco so someone whose background is strong in Cisco is a must. They are also leveraging some Palo Alto, F5, and Infoblox
3. Experience working across a vastly distributed Global Network. With 38 sites across the globe, and multiple networks to support multiple functions it is essential someone can work in a very complex global environment.
Description:
Who Our Client Is:
Our client is a Post-Trade financial services company. They provide solutions to support clearing and settlement services to financial markets. Through their organization and their subsidiaries they provide products to serve the needs of entities across asset classes from initial onboarding through clearance, settlement asset servicing, data management, and trade reporting. Coupled with the highest level of security and soundness our client is focused on ensuring the financial markets are safe, and running smoothly.

Why this position is open:
Our client has embarked on a significant network Modernization journey that includes multiple large projects, and multi-year initiatives. Currently they are in the middle of a project that is scheduled to deliver by the end of 2025 and the project has created some growing pains and bandwidth challenges. This Director role will be focused on troubleshoot a lot of those challenges, helping to provide solutions to ongoing challenges related to the modernization, and help ensure as the project continues that further issues are limited.

What you will do:
As a Director of Networking you will be working with the Platforms organization and report the Executive Director of Networking. Your role will be centered on supporting Modernization and Transformation efforts for our client by supporting the following:
The primary function of this role will be to leverage extensive Network Engineering skills to troubleshoot and problem solve issues that arise as a result of the Network Modernization efforts. This will include spending time day to day in the weeks, hands on to understand the problems that are being presented, identify what needs to be addressed and ensure those issues are addressed. Additionally you would partner with other Director level resources to ensure when issues arise the appropriate team's are address that issue.
Much of the modernization effort you will support is tied to generational lifecycle management, moving from a 3 tier topology based on STP to spine and leaf networking to have a more flat network, increasing bandwidth in switching fabric and moving to Zero Trust Architecture where appropriate. Additionally, our client is supporting 3 different networks, there is a Campus network that supports the employees working within this organization, there are the Production data centers hosting workloads, as well as a client network supporting hundreds of clients and used to connect them to services offered. So being able to navigate not only the complex modernization effort, but also a complex network architecture will be crucial to this role.
Skills:
Network operations, Network infrastructure, Architecture, Cisco, troubleshooting
Top Skills Details:
Network operations,Network infrastructure,Architecture,Cisco,troubleshooting
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Additional tools leveraged in this environement include:
- ThousandEyes
- Riverbed
- Dynatrace
- Splunk
- ITSI
- HP Open View
- SNMP Monitoring
Experience Level:
Expert Level
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.