Network Architect – Network Engineering Team
Our client, an industry leading proprietary trading firm and market maker, is looking for a Network Architect to join their growing network engineering team in New York. The firm prides itself on its collaborative and technologically focused approach, always trying to improve and implement new technologies while collaborating with industry leaders.
As a Network Architect you will be building the firms network infrastructure and working to identify areas of improvement and implementing solutions to optimize the mission critical ultra-low latency trading network. To succeed you will need to have deep technical expertise architecting network and optimizing for latency. You will also be a part of the firms mission towards building up their cloud infrastructure utilizing the latest in cloud technologies.
Responsibilities
- Take charge of the network design, product selection, routing, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Architect the firms network infrastructure and lead the mission towards implementing the latest cloud technologies.
- Implement network optimizations and improvements to reduce latency.
- Implement automation to reduce manual elements.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to solve complex issues.
- Act as a technical expert supporting one of the industries most competitive high frequency trading firms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience working with large scale low latency networks.
- Experience with automation through python and bash scripting.
- Experience with cloud networks utilizing AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or SALT
- In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices; working knowledge of OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP.
- Experience utilising Arista, Cisco and other networking devices on a regular basis.
- Experience in designing enterprise networks, capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
- Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as Wireshark and tcdump.
- Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub
If you are interested in having a confidential conversation please contact me on vgris@algocaptialgroup.com.