Senior Computer Network and Systems Engineer

at  FlexTrade

FlexTrade Systems is a financial technology Software Company headquartered in Great Neck, New York. We are celebrating 26 years as an industry pioneer and a global leader in broker-neutral trading platforms for equities, foreign exchange, options, futures, and fixed income. FlexTrade has 500+ employees across 10+ offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, and a worldwide client base both from Buy Side and Sell Side business. It is an exciting time to join FlexTrade. Each line of business and region is at a different growth phase. Across its functional teams, FlexTrade is taking bold steps to transform its business and approach to positioning itself for the next growth phase.
Senior Computer Network and Systems Engineer provides cross-functional expertise to deliver quality service and solutions to our stakeholders from strategy through to execution and support IT systems to deliver FlexTrade’s solutions.

• Assist in implementation and administration of network solutions.
• Plan, design and implement complex IP Networks in a datacenter environment.
• Assess and re-design existing environments/networks to ensure maximum network uptime.
• Strong working knowledge in vulnerability assessment, Network Audits & Performance
• Configuring & Managing Network Devices such as switches, routers and firewalls.
• Managing Security Appliances like Fortigate, Cisco ASA, Firepower and other security technologies like NMS, VPN, IDS and IPS.
• Troubleshoot core, distribution and access switches in LAN and WAN network.
• Configure static, dynamic Routing and Inter VLAN communication on Routers and switches.
• Identify and analyze network gaps and conduct network performance tests.
• Manage security and infrastructure solutions using firewalls.
• Configuration of failover, load balancing, bandwidth management and gateways.
• Experience with anti-virus and content filtering with firewalls.
• Installation, configuration and securing FortiGate, Cisco ASA and other firewalls.
• Perform regular backup of devices and author network diagrams.
• You can review existing operational processes to improve scalability and reliability.
• Network monitoring and performance tuning.
• Provide technical support on routers, switches and firewalls.
• Provide support to clients directly and resolve issues for them.
• A degree in a related field, such as Computer Science
• 5 – 7 Years of experience in network design, build and support.
• IT networking Industry certification (CCNP / CCIE, ITIL etc.)
• A passion for staying up to date with the very latest updates about networking and solutions.
• Solid troubleshooting skills, good communications skills, both written and oral, ability to multitask in a fast paced, dynamic environment built on multi-vendor security controls.