Senior Network Engineer

One of the world’s leading high frequency trading firms have an exciting opportunity open for a Senior Network Engineer to join their low latency networks team Chicago office.

This role is looking for someone who is a hands-on technical leader searching to make an impact, deliver value and work well within a team environment.

Responsibilities of this Role:

• Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and manage our network infrastructure
• Work on designing new colocations and improving connectivity in existing colocations as well as our Data Center network
• Identify, recommend and implement network system optimisations and focus on network solutions that provide fast information
• Provide technical expertise and support to a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network link together across our global data center presence
• Contribute to capacity planning and traffic flow optimization
• Help push us towards intelligent automation
• Tackle technical debt while removing complexity

Candidate requirements:

• Strong network and performance monitoring skills and knowledge of network capacity planning
• Strong Low-Latency networking experience with a focus on exchange connectivity, taps and aggregation would be highly beneficial
• Experience working across LAN and global WAN networks
• Cisco and Arista network equipment experience preferred
• Experience troubleshooting network transport protocols – TCP/UDP
• Deep understanding and experience with routing protocols (such as OSPF, BGP) and network protocols (such as Multicast, Spanning Tree, HSRP)
• Network Automation experience with strong Python scripting experience preferred