Network Engineer - Ultra Low Latency.
A top-performing global hedge fund, in Equities, FX, Commodities, Futures, Options, Fixed Income HTF is hiring a network engineer, to ensure the stability and integrity of all aspects that comprise the global trading collocation network which includes infrastructure data sites across AMER, APAC and EMEA.
The Ultra-Low Latency Network Engineer will oversee and participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization, and documentation of all network hardware, security hardware, software, and connectivity. This includes managing multiple projects and configuring/optimizing the network to ensure ultra-low latency is achieved for intraday trading and direct market access systems. This team collaborates and is closely aligned with trading systems developers, enabling the technology team to deliver an optimal trading platform.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Architect, engineer and deploy ultra-low latency network infrastructure at colocation data centers.
- Provide exchange, broker, and managed service providers connectivity to support ultra-low latency market data delivery and order execution, Provision delivery of multicast inter and intra region between colo to colo, colo to DC, or DC to colo.
- Project delivery/management collaborating with stakeholders, intraday desk, internal teams, and external vendors. Manage all aspects related to collocation sites: site access, equipment procurement, logistics, contract management, capacity management (power, space, servers, network ports, etc.), performance management, service availability, connectivity, compute and market data delivery.
- Ensure comprehensive operational control and reporting, providing actionable information to optimize the performance of the trading infrastructure. Build/update procedures and documentation.
- Implement and support changes to the global collocation environment colocation sites and datacenters.
- areas for generating efficiencies adopting automation and innovative solutions for improvements.
Qualifications:
- Experience in network engineering and project delivery experience in low latency.
- Extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols
- Unicast: OSPF, BGP, NAT, IPSEC, and GRE o Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP o Switching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLAN
- Authoritative level experience and skill with Arista and Cisco network switching, routing hardware and software
- Outstanding knowledge of network monitoring PCAP decoding tools landscape (Corvil, SFlow, timestamping (PTP))
- Knowledge of Algorithmic/DMA/HFT and trading platforms and how the trade lifecycle operates a must
- Solid understanding of the market venue, exchange protocols (binary, FIX, ITCH,OUCH, Pillar, etc.) and trading systems across multiple asset classes
- Strong scripting and automation experience (Python preferred)
- Excellent communication skills; ability to perform under pressure, and detail-oriented
- CCIE Certified
For more information or a discreet conversation, we invite you to apply now.