eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Bloomberg

• Location

  China-Hong Kong

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  16 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  583096

The Company

Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world.

The Role

Bloomberg has an exciting opportunity for a motivated Network Engineer for Feeds group. The Network Feeds group is responsible for the day to day support of Bloomberg’s Asia market data infrastructure. This group is also responsible for designing, testing and implementing new market data connectivity solutions, providing Bloomberg with reliable and uninterrupted access to critical market data from Banks, Stock Exchanges & News Agencies worldwide.

The team is looking for a Market Data Network expert to provide technical design, development, and support of various Market Data, Trading and News feeds.  The successful candidate will be involved in all technical aspects of the network, from hands-on support to software driven network management and control.

Qualifications

The candidate must have experience working with routers, switches and firewalls. The following experience is also essential for the role:

-Confidence building edge router configurations using Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel hardware.
-Thorough understanding of TCP/IP call setup, teardown and trouble-shooting with sniffers.
-Routing experience with a least 2 of the following protocols: OSPF/RIP/BGP/MPLS
-WAN experience with ATM, Frame relay and leased line connectivity.
-Experience of network projects, troubleshooting, planning installation and management to strict timescales.
-Qualification such as Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA-M or equivalent.

In addition, the following skills would be desirable:

-Knowledge of major exchange platforms such as TSE, OSE, HKSE and others.
-Working knowledge of UNIX, including Linux and Solaris.
-Understanding of financial instruments, fixed income, equity and derivatives.

Network Feed projects may require some travel to meet Exchanges or vendors and to lend assistance to local personnel. The ideal candidate should be calm under pressure, a team player flexible and customer focused, with strong communication skills. 

Candidate must be able to communicate effectively in English, and possess multilingual capabilities (Mandarin and/or Japanese and/or others).

Some shift, weekend and Public holiday cover may be occasionally required.