GBM - Network Engineer, Electronic Trading Platforms - Associate - London

GBM - Network Engineer, Electronic Trading Platforms - Associate - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Overview

Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) team provides tailored infrastructure solutions for the firm's global markets businesses, we engineer and operate low latency trading environments globally. We leverage modern infrastructure, automation, and observability to optimize performance and manage risk on behalf of our clients. The team's areas of responsibility encompass server hardware, Linux, networking, configuration management and packet capture analytics. The team directly interfaces with senior business stakeholders and external clients of the firm.

Your Role

• Build high-performance, large scale distributed trading networks leveraging automation
• Engage with highly motivated clients to help drive commercial outcomes and solve complex problems
• Operate in a dynamic working environment with fluid priorities, requires the ability to context switch and adapt to time sensitive issues
• Expand beyond your domain. We have broad engineering remits, affording opportunities to explore innovative hardware and software offerings

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• CCNA or greater accredited with strong expertise in end-to-end infrastructure delivery, including BGP, multicast routing, switching,
• Strong communication and analytical problem-solving skills
• Securities/trading domain exposure a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting mission-critical, latency-sensitive production environments
• Colocation connectivity, cross-connect provisioning, carrier diversity, and exchange/venue connectivity models
• Experience with production change management practices and knowledge of SDLC
• Scripting (bash/python) and configuration management (Ansible, Salt) experience building tooling and drive automation with an IAC mindset
• Experience with open source monitoring and metrics collections (Nagios, TICK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Comfortable operating in Linux based environments
• Production operations: incident response, triaging and troubleshooting
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred as the team interfaces directly with senior stakeholders, external clients, and internal technology stakeholders

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at

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Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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