Senior Network Engineer

Sopra Steria is a listed European tech leader specializing in Consulting, Digital Services, and Software. With 60,000 employees worldwide across Europe, North America and Asia, Singapore serves as the HQ for our APAC operations. We focus on delivering Infrastructure, Cloud and Cybersecurity services across the region.

For this position, we are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to assist one of our client – a leading global investment bank.

Responsibilities

• Manage exchange colocation at major financial exchanges, including rack builds, cross-connects, and direct exchange connectivity for market data and order entry.
• Engineer and support a highly resilient, optimized multicast network for market-data distribution; implement and fine-tune routing protocols to achieve deterministic, low-latency paths.
• Implement and maintain the PTP infrastructure to ensure clock synchronization across the platform.
• Oversee and execute the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of network infrastructure.
• Document all network hardware, software, and telecom circuits.
• Analyze and resolve network-service problems promptly and accurately; provide reports, documentation, and training as required.
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory of all electronic-market network infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with Group instructions and guidelines (especially IT-Security guidelines and Global ITI&P Governance) and validate the architecture accordingly.
• Guarantee the proper functioning of the network infrastructure in APAC electronic markets, taking business requirements and regulatory constraints into account.
• Utilize network-monitoring and troubleshooting tools proficiently.
• Provide support on the morning shift, as well as on holidays and weekends.
• Travel occasionally within APAC for data-center projects.

Requirements:
Technical and Behavioral Competencies required

• Familiarity with financial-datacenter environments and the exchange-colocation ecosystem.
• Expert-level knowledge of multicast and routing protocols.
• Expertise with high-performance, low-latency switching hardware.
• Experience in Linux/RHEL system administration for trading or business-application environments.
• Knowledge of x86 hardware, server-networking peripherals, and data-centre setups.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl) and system tools to devise rapid solutions.
• Skill in technical troubleshooting, system recovery, root-cause analysis, and remediation, including coordination with vendors and remote technical staff.
• Ability to provide balanced, high-quality advice, analysis, and guidance to application teams and the business.

Experience and Qualifications required

• Minimum 3 years in network services related experience
• Holder of vendor certification is preferable (CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA)
• Work independently in a highly dynamic environment, both individually and as a team
• Self-starter
• Ability to work under pressure
• Fluency in English

Benefits:
• Regular team buildings
• 18 leave days / year
• Insurance: GP, Hospitalisation, Dental and Optical
• Annual bonus
• Working hours: from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday
• Training and certifications paths