Senior Network Engineer – Trading Infrastrcuture (664282E)

Company: Referment
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Location: Northern Ireland
Job Description:

Referment is working with a global financial technology business to hire a Senior Network Engineer to support highly available, business-critical infrastructure used across electronic trading and financial markets.

You’ll work across production, corporate and development networks, taking responsibility for day-to-day network operations while supporting infrastructure changes and wider engineering projects.

This is a hands-on position suited to someone with strong networking fundamentals and experience supporting demanding production environments where performance, resilience and availability are critical.

The Role

You’ll Be Responsible For

  • Supporting business-critical production and development networks.
  • Administering and maintaining network and security infrastructure.
  • Troubleshooting complex network and connectivity issues.
  • Installing, configuring and maintaining switches, routers and other network devices.
  • Working with third-party vendors to resolve production issues and implement infrastructure changes.
  • Supporting network changes and infrastructure projects.
  • Maintaining routing, switching, VPN and firewall configurations.
  • Supporting hosted and data-centre environments.
  • Contributing to project planning, implementation and risk management.
  • Working closely with other infrastructure and engineering teams.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll Ideally Have

  • 5+ years’ network engineering experience within hosted, production or similarly demanding environments.
  • Strong experience with Juniper, Cisco and/or Arista networking equipment.
  • Strong knowledge of BGP and OSPF.
  • Good understanding of subnetting, VLANs, VLAN tagging and NAT.
  • Experience configuring IPSec VPNs and GRE tunnels.
  • Strong understanding of network security.
  • Experience working with firewalls such as Fortinet, Check Point, Juniper SRX or Cisco ASA.
  • Hands-on data-centre experience including racking, cabling and patching.
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.
  • Experience working with vendors and other technical teams.
  • The ability to operate effectively within business-critical production environments.

Experience with multicast networking would be particularly valuable.

Exposure to InfiniBand, RoCE or other high-performance networking technologies would also be beneficial.

Previous experience within electronic trading, market data, exchanges, investment banking, hedge funds or other financial-markets technology environments would be particularly relevant.

This could suit a Senior Network Engineer, Network Engineer, Network Infrastructure Engineer, Trading Network Engineer or Network Operations Engineer looking to work with sophisticated financial-markets infrastructure.

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Posted: September 21st, 2026