Network Engineer - Cloud (hybrid)

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

The Role

As Cloud Network Engineer, you will assist with the maintenance & improvement of the  Fastmarkets IT estate. Ensuring the business is running seamlessly on secure, resilient & fit for purpose infrastructure, throughout an exciting period of growth & change. This role demands a unique combination of strong technical skills across many technical disciplines, effective communication, and teamwork within the wider organisation. 

Fastmarkets’ IT Operations team is responsible for providing a front door into Fastmarkets Corporate and Digital Applications and Services for over 700 employees and 150 supplier partners across the globe with a variety of persona needs. The business operates in a Microsoft cloud first view across all pillars of technical delivery and need to provide a seamless experience as far as possible 

• Manage Infrastructure & Configurations: Manage, monitor & improve all Fastmarkets network services & integrations. Maintain data-driven visibility into IT estate and report on operational progress. 

• Assurance & Governance: Feed into the network asset lifecycle. Aligning closely with Information Security & Site Reliability engineers and architects to minimise and mitigate risks. Ensuring systems are backed up and deliver disaster recovery processes that are effective and actionable. 

• Planning & IT Strategy Execution: Partner with IT Change function to onboard new and improved technologies. Take decisions to help inform and manage capacity. 

• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver project requirements, provide updates, and ensure alignment on identified issues. 

• Technical Oversight: Provide technical guidance to teams & 3rd party Partners ensuring adherence to industry best practices and standards. 

• Certification and Compliance: Ensure technical delivery aligns with agreed certifications and industry standards. 

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Significant experience as a Cloud Network Engineer in a Global, fast-growing organisation; Managing Infrastructure as code in a near exclusive Microsoft Azure Environment, utilising Azure Virtual WAN, 3rd Party Security Network Virtual Appliances and Zero Trust Private access alongside with traditional network understanding. Exposure to Zscaler Private and Internet Access, FortiGate Firewalls and Multicast networking would be beneficial 

• Understanding of the common security toolset used in enterprise, working alongside Information Security functions to implement new tools and fine tune existing ones 

• Private Equity Expertise: Utilize experience in mid-market private equity-backed businesses to navigate and address challenges associated with the transformation process. 

• Participate and maintain relevant artifacts continuous improvement processes using Agile development methodologies and development processes;SCRUM, CI, CD 

• Strong experience in ITIL framework and Service methodologies. 

• Ability to engage in open, honest conversations with members of the Senior Management Team, peers and junior colleagues when discussing delivery performance, with associated risks and issues 

• Ability to “de-tech” conversations with business stakeholders 

• Must be able to work autonomously, effectively in a matrix organisation and as part of a team, driving outcomes using data. 

• Experience of contributing to stakeholder meetings e.g., scoping/discovery workshops, steering groups, Change Advisory Boards, Technical Design Authorities and workshops to facilitate an agreed decision/ outcome 

• Broad business knowledge including commercial, financial, and technical awareness 

• Be able to balance task orientation with stakeholder expectation i.e., focus on delivery of allocated tasks, but not to the exclusion of all else, be able to influence both staff and team members 

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.