Network Engineer

Location: NYC (hybrid onsite)

Employees: 300 | Team Size: 12-15

Industry: Technology | Trading

Reports To: VP of Engineering

Building proprietary trading technology solutions including proprietary hardware platforms with a focus on low latency. Network performance and redundancy are critical components to the success of trading operations. Network engineer will help design, implement, and support the Network Infrastructure, and work along side software engineers and traders to support high availability of trading infrastructure.

Most Important Responsibilities:

• Design, engineer, and implement low-latency network solutions based on business and stakeholder requirements.
• Own and manage strategic projects to optimize low-latency, high-performance network solutions across various data center locations.
• Collaborate with financial exchanges, brokers, and banks to establish network connectivity in shared colocation facilities.
• Conduct high-level analysis and troubleshooting of network infrastructure.
• Respond to network requests, diagnose and resolve complex network failures, ensuring minimal disruption and timely results.
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades, including patches and hotfixes to address vendor bugs and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor system resource utilization, analyze historical trends, and conduct capacity planning.
• Provide technical expertise to ensure safe, effective, and efficient changes to the network infrastructure.
• Participate in the team on-call rotation cycle.

What you can bring to the table to impact this role, team, and organization:

• 6 years of experience as a Network Engineer in a technical networking environment.
• Extensive hands-on knowledge of complex network designs; L2 switching, dynamic routing (OSPF, BGP, EIGPR, firewalling (ASA, PaloAlto), and VPN (Site-to-Site IPSec)
• Extensive knowledge of network operating systems (IOS, NX-OS, EOS, PANOS).
• Strong understanding of multicast, exchange connectivity, and real-time market data feeds.
• Ability to troubleshoot network latency and packet drop issues.
• Hands-on experience with network monitoring, diagnostic, and analytics tools, along with automation.
• Experience planning, implementing, and supporting physical space, power, and structured cabling with data centers.
• Experience working with financial exchanges, trading, brokers, and banks.

Bonus/Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Python and Ansible
• Experience troubleshooting fiber optic connectivity within and between data center locations.

Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental, PTO, Sick Time, 401K matching

Compensation: $140,000 – 180,000 Bonus opportunity