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Network Engineer

IMC Inc
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our Chicago office. The network engineering team plays a vital role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the network infrastructure that drives our low-latency, high-performance trading systems. Our team is passionate about sharing knowledge and collaborating with traders, developers, quants, and performance engineers to solve complex problems that allow IMC to maintain a competitive edge in the financial markets.

Your Core Responsibilities :

  • Design, implement and support the North American networking infrastructure. Key areas of expertise include Low-latency networking, Unicast and Multicast routing, BGP, PIM-SM, as well as more advanced topics like performance tuning, gap analysis, and automation
  • Monitor and analyze the proper functioning of our network infrastructure using currently available tools, and contribute ideas for new tools
  • Proactively improve our infrastructure by contributing code to our automation efforts (e.g. Bash, Python, Ansible, AWX)
  • Accurately create and maintain documentation detailing the IMC network, including relevant procedures
  • Help support our IT security related platforms. Key areas include Palo Alto firewalls and client VPN, site-to-site VPNs, authentication systems, etc.
  • Communicate with external vendors, exchanges and providers to explore new technology solutions, implement new services or troubleshoot problems

Your Skills and Experience :

  • 8 years of network engineering focused experience
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills on wide variety of networking issues, including common Ethernet LAN problems, unicast and multicast routing, switching, packet analysis, and VPN remote access
  • Experience with multiple different network switching hardware platforms
  • Direct hands-on coding or scripting and automation with Python, Ansible, etc., is a plus
  • CCIE or CCNP certification is a plus
  • Experience within the trading or financial industry is highly preferred
  • The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

    Salary Range

    180,000-$225,000 USD

    About Us

    IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

    Salary : $180,000 - $225,000

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