Network Engineer – Leading High Frequency Trading Company recruitment

A leading High Frequency Proprietary trading company is looking to hire an experienced Network Engineer for their Chicago Operations.

Working primarily with the global network team, the primary focus of this role is to support the existing network infrastructure as well as to implement any changes. The individual in this position will be responsible for improving the overall latency of the trading systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with other teams to identify and reduce latency in the production environment

• Evaluate and test new technologies and methodologies with the aim to reduce latency in the production environment

• Liaise with exchanges to design new connections and to optimize existing ones

• Maintain relevant documentation and diagrams

• Perform an architecture and design role as needed

• Install, configure and manage switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs and VOIP infrastructure

• Troubleshoot and resolve network problems and assist other teams in problem solving

• Maintain the network environment across multiple global sites and work as part of a global team

• Provide on-call support as required and be prepared to perform changes outside of production hours

• Understand the application space and its impact on the network

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

• Experience with connectivity to all the major US exchanges

• Expert theoretical and practical knowledge of networking

• Cisco certification CCNP or equivalent experience

• Practical experience working with Unix systems

• Expert practical knowledge of OS/network performance tuning

• Extensive practical programming language knowledge and skills (bash, Python etc)

• Experience working in a trading environment with automated trading system knowledge, preferred. Desire and aptitude to learn and understand the Trading Industry required

• Strong sense of personal responsibility, results-oriented with a strong sense of pride in quality of work

• Capable of working in a fast paced, dynamic environment, meeting tight deadlines and working under pressure

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading High Frequency Proprietary trading company in Chicago as a Networks Engineer.