Brevan Howard
Website:
brevanhoward.com
Job details:
COMPANY/DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
The Firm:
Brevan Howard Asset Management is one of the leading absolute return/hedge fund managers, overseeing assets on behalf of institutional investors from around the world, including pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, government agencies, private banks, and fund of funds.
Brevan Howard was founded in 2002 and launched its flagship global macro strategy in April 2003. The firm currently manages over $34bn and engages predominantly in discretionary directional and relative value trading in fixed income, FX markets, and equities. BH Digital, a division within Brevan Howard that manages crypto and digital asset strategies was launched in 2022.
The firm currently employs over 1,000 personnel worldwide, including over 400 investment professionals. This global presence gives Brevan Howard the ability to identify and source attractive investment opportunities, as well as investment management talent wherever they may be. Brevan Howard has won several industry awards for excellence in risk management, operational robustness, and investment performance.
The firm’s main hubs are in London, Jersey, Geneva, New York, Austin, Hong Kong, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Bengaluru.
The Department:
The Information Security Team is responsible for protecting the company’s infrastructure, intellectual property and digital assets. The team has a broad scope of responsibilities and tackles projects in different security verticals (IAM, GRC, Cloud Security, Application Security, Detection and Response, etc.)
We are in a build phase at present.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Maintaining data, voice or video network hardware and systems; investigates and resolves network and hardware matters of significance; research, analyses, isolates, and resolves errors; assesses and updates older networks as needed and in accordance with specified plans.
- Effectively deal with tickets and incidents passed on from the service desk.
- Provides technical support on data, voice, or video networks for internal and/or external customers; answers technical questions; recommends and implements approved course of action. Provides technical leadership for data or voice network problem escalation and resolution.
- Design, deploy and manage a corporate enterprise and executive office environment that is growing at an unprecedented pace.
- Architect points of presence for peering and internet connectivity in datacentres across the world
- Manage and develop key supplier & vendor relationships.
- Provide escalation path for fault resolution, talking directly to end users, suppliers, and other teams within the organization.
- Proactive & reactive network monitoring and management, fault resolution, capacity planning, security, patching, maintenance.
- Working on a mix of projects to include, but not limited to Data Centre, Branch Offices, video, and telephony – producing high quality documentation for network designs and processes.
- Deliver simple, scalable solutions and processes that improve the users experience.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND:
Essential
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience of supporting a global network, delivering complete end to end connectivity
- Proven ability to organise & prioritise multiple tasks daily
- Strong analytical abilities with a good level of investigative skills
- Service oriented, accurate, effective, and able to work unsupervised even under pressure
- Responsive and adaptable in a dynamic, collaborative work environment.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a financial background is preferred but not necessary
TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:
Essential
- CCNP preferred, minimum CCNA
- Support, management, and implementation of Next-Gen Firewalls
- Wireless (Meraki preferred)
- Site to Site VPNs on various devices (inc. IOS)
- Thorough knowledge of various routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & EIGRP
- Cisco ISE & 802.1x
- Multicast
- Cloud Networking (AWS preferred)
- Familiar with Cisco product range
Desirable
- Palo Alto
- Cisco DNAC & SDA
- Cisco Call Manager/Collaboration
- Automation (Python/Ansible/Terraform)
- Traffic inspection/SSL decryption
- SDWAN
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