Network Engineer
Chicago, Il
● Designed, maintained, and troubleshot a fully redundant MAN/WAN between remote offices and exchanges in Chicago, New York, London and proprietary electronic exchanges. ● Implemented and maintained PIX Firewall configurations which included various encryption methods and crypto map policies to various Chicago exchanges for the software development team.● Provided 24 hour support for all network connectivity issues which included multiple remote sites using ATM, Ethernet, Frame-Relay, T1, Fiber over Ethernet, HSSI, ISDN and DS3 connection types. ● Access to CBOE, CBOT, CME interstitial for deployment of equipment, trouble shot local network, wireless exchange to handheld connections, and requests for new port activations.● Upgraded and maintained multiple proprietary electronic exchange application servers/clients which included, Hyperfeed, Thomson One, Trading Technologies, GL Trade, Eurex US/EU, Redi, RTS, ARCA, and ISE Clicktrade.● Troubleshot and installed proprietary trading applications, exchange API’s such as CME/Globex, eCBOT, CBOE and electronic server/client software.● Acted as primary escalation support for all levels of helpdesk and network related issues.● Designed and maintained physical cabling and network/server equipment at primary data centers and all off site exchange data centers.● Created base security configuration standard on all Cisco hardware.● Maintained Cisco IOS upgrades on routers and switches.● Created and maintained network documentation, processes and support contracts.● Setup Cisco wireless access points using MAC authentication.● Pre-staged file, application, and database servers for use in a Windows 2000 AD environment.● Installed and configured Solaris and Linux based variants including Red Hat and SuSe for proprietary trading applications.● Administered Microsoft Exchange mail server version 5.5.● Maintained tape backup sets with Veritas Backup Exec ver 9.x.