Principal Network Engineer

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

12/7/2024

Job Title

Principal Network Engineer

Job Description

As the Principal Network Engineer, you will play a key role in building and enhancing the infrastructure that powers our fast-growing retail brokerage business, while also supporting a variety of other business initiatives. We are passionate about maintaining the speed, stability, and performance of our back-end systems, which directly impacts the experience of our customer-facing applications. Our architecture is constantly evolving to meet new technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality, performance, and scalability.

Who Are We

Hello, we’re IG Group. No, not Instagram – though we're a pretty big deal ourselves. We’re a global, FTSE 250-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We’ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around 400,000 people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love.

Did we mention we have offices in 18 countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, you'll have the chance to work across multiple brands with people all over the world. We work in cross-functional teams, focused on delivering at pace to improve the experience of traders on our platforms.

The Team

The IG family of companies is committed to empowering individual investors and traders by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, competitive pricing, and innovative financial products. Our engineers have access to a wide range of tools and technologies, offering the opportunity to tackle diverse problems while honing expertise in specific areas. We are looking for self-motivated, engineering-driven professionals who are pragmatic, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and take pride in creating and operating large-scale, highly available, and high-performance systems. With a lean team and a management philosophy that values autonomy, you’ll have the freedom to shape impactful solutions.

The Role

In this role, you'll ensure the reliability and efficiency of IG’s network infrastructure by staying ahead of evolving networking technologies, proactively identifying potential issues, and leading multiple tasks and projects. Our goal is to maintain the most stable, performant network possible to deliver the best experience for our customers.

This position is based in our London headquarters.

What You’ll Do

• Act as the technical lead for the enhancement of our new data centre facilities, ensuring seamless network integration and standardization across IG and tastytrade.
• Lead Networks in the design, implementation, and operation of containerisation and public cloud platforms.
• Work collaboratively within the wider network team to design, implement, and manage the groups network infrastructure, ensuring it meets business demands for availability and performance.
• Leverage automation technologies and adopt a DevOps approach to enhance the efficiency, security, and resiliency of the network environment.
• Partner closely with the development team to deliver enhanced services and features that drive value for our customers.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and technical excellence within the team.
• Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date network documentation and diagrams, creating new materials where necessary to ensure clarity and consistency.
  
  

The Way We Work

We also think hard about our ways of working as a company. At IG Group, we’ve set out five target behaviours that we expect everyone to strive to achieve in all that we do:

Lead & Inspire: Leading teams in a way that drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm;

Think Big: We focus on the problems that most move the needle of commercial outcomes;

Champion the client: We always keep the client's needs front of mind and deliver as much value for them in all that we do;

Deliver at pace: We work to ensure nothing stands in the way of fast delivery of sustainable growth for our business; and

Raise the bar: We raise the bar by taking ownership of outcomes and being accountable for making things better across IG.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of experience in a Senior Network Engineering role, with demonstrated expertise in managing medium to large-scale network infrastructures.
• Advanced knowledge of switching and routing concepts, with hands-on experience in managing complex network environments.
• In-depth understanding of the TCP/IP stack and experience with a broad range of networking hardware and software, including Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, and Linux.
• Extensive experience working with protocols such as BGP, VxLAN, and vPCs, with a proven history of managing mission-critical production network infrastructure.
• Ability to respond quickly and effectively to high-pressure incidents, maintaining composure while troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Demonstrated ownership and commitment to continuously improving network infrastructure, constantly striving to achieve higher levels of reliability, security, and performance.
• Strong experience in collaborating across both technical and business divisions to drive the successful delivery of large-scale enterprise projects.
• Advanced experience designing, building, and maintaining cloud network infrastructure in public cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
  
  

The Perks

It really is more than a job. We’ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total
• The option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents
  
  

Where You’ll Work

We follow a hybrid working model; we reckon it’s the best of both worlds. This model also feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection.

Plus, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workforce with a lot of creative energy. Ask our employees what their favourite thing is about working at IG, and you’ll hear an echo of ‘our culture’! That’s because you can come to work as your authentic self. The things that make you, you – like your ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, age, gender identity/expression or physical capacity – can bring a fresh perspective or new skill to our business.

That’s why we welcome people from various walks of life; and anyone who wants to help us realize our vision and strategy.

So, if you’re keen to connect with our values, and lead the charge on innovation, you know what to do.

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