About this role
🌐 About the Role
We’re looking for a Junior Network Automation / NOC Engineer to join a global infrastructure team supporting latency-sensitive trading workloads .
This is a great opportunity for a network engineer with 2–3 years of experience who wants to grow beyond traditional NOC work and develop deeper skills in network automation, cloud infrastructure, and data center networking .
You’ll work alongside experienced engineers and get hands-on exposure to Arista, FortiGate, pfSense, BGP, VPLS/eVPN, Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Git .
⚡ What You’ll Work On
- Monitor and support global network connectivity across data centers, offices, cloud providers, and private network links.
- Troubleshoot routing, switching, firewall, and connectivity issues across first- and second-line support.
- Manage firewall ACL changes, NAT rules, VPN checks, and basic firewall administration.
- Provision and maintain VLANs and cross-connects on Arista switches .
- Coordinate network turn-ups, moves, adds, and changes with data center providers and clients.
- Configure monitoring dashboards, alerts, and network health checks.
- Support network maintenance, firmware updates, and patching.
- Maintain clear and accurate network and firewall documentation.
- Help build CI/CD practices for network configuration using Git and similar tools.
- Contribute to network automation and scripting using Python, Ansible, Terraform , and other tools.
- Work with senior engineers to automate repetitive network operations and gradually take on more complex engineering tasks.
🛠️ Tech Stack
Networking: BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPLS/eVPN, MPLS/VXLAN
Switching: Arista, Cisco or similar
Firewalls: FortiGate, pfSense
Automation: Python, Ansible, Terraform
Infrastructure: Data Centers, Cloud Networking, SDN
Tools: Git, CLI, logs, packet captures
🎯 What We’re Looking For
- 2–3 years of experience in network engineering, network operations, or NOC support.
- Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals .
- Hands-on experience with at least one major networking vendor such as Cisco, Arista, Fortinet , or similar.
- Experience supporting or administering firewalls .
- Understanding of ACLs and experience working within structured change-control processes.
- Experience with VLANs, interfaces, trunks, and data center switching .
- Familiarity with scripting or automation — Python, Ansible, Terraform , or similar.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment where network availability directly impacts clients.
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical teams and external clients.
⭐ Nice to Have
These skills aren’t mandatory, but they’ll make your profile stand out:
- CCNA or equivalent networking knowledge
- FreeBSD or other Unix/Linux experience
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud networking
- VMware, Hyper-V, or other virtualization technologies
- Experience with Precision Time Protocol (PTP) or low-latency infrastructure
- Familiarity with ISO 27001 or other security/compliance frameworks
📈 Why This Role?
This isn’t just a traditional NOC position. You’ll have the opportunity to work with real-world data center infrastructure supporting global financial markets , while building automation skills and progressing toward a more senior network engineering role.
If you’re a networking professional who enjoys troubleshooting, wants to learn automation, and is excited by high-performance infrastructure , this could be a great next step.