Senior Network Engineer - Global Low Latency Trading Firm

Company:

Global leading low latency trading and investment company. Highly competitive compensation with cutting-edge technology and the ability to offer relocation allowance. If you have a background in HFT or financial services this will be a highly reputable company. This team designs, builds and maintains communications infrastructure to support low-latency trading and data research to run 24/7.

You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the global trading and research platforms and contribute to both high-level strategy and the technical nitty-gritty of their global network architecture.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related IT field
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in low-latency and high-frequency trading environments.
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices; working knowledge of OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP
• Familiarity with low-latency microwave networks and/or optical transmission systems, such as Adva, Ciena is desirable
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack.
• Familiarity with firewalls (including Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet), VPNs and NAT
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Familiarity with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, is desirable

Location: Relocation Available. This role is Hybrid in downtown Manhattan, NYC