Senior Network Engineer recruitment

Job Description:

Spot Trading, LLC, founded in 1999, is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago’s financial district. We trade options on equities and broad market indices. We have distinguished ourselves amongst our peers in the industry by developing world-class trading technology, an innovative trading model, and a collaborative culture. Our team comprises a wide variety of talented professionals, including traders, equity research analysts, financial engineers, technologists, and financial analysts.

Spot’s unique culture of teamwork encourages awareness across functional teams and fosters an environment where new ideas are continually shared, debated, and implemented. We recognize that the input of many different disciplines results in the success of our trade.

The passion, integrity and expertise of our team of professionals have driven the success of the firm since its inception. Along with our ongoing pursuit of excellence and adaptability to the changing marketplace, these will continue to be keys to our future success.

Summary

Spot trading has made a substantial investment in our core network architecture. A Spot Network Engineer will be a leader in transforming the network into an intelligent infrastructure by reducing latency, improving scalability and evaluating new advanced technological options; Spot Trading has been able and will continue to add value to our production, administration and development environments by leveraging this advantage.

The right candidate is passionate and a self directed subject matter expert. An entrepreneurial attitude is a requirement and the ability to work seamlessly in a team is a must. In addition to being able to successfully design, deploy and manage our dynamic network infrastructure, the network engineer will seek new opportunities that Spot Trading can leverage to develop, test and deploy new software logic much faster and more cost effectively.

Responsibilities

• Participate in planning, designing and implementing a high quality production environment.

• Design networks based on tested and best practice architecture.

• Implement networks based on tested designs scheduled within a project plan.

• Documentation of network topologies.

• Participate in design reviews.

• Can work on cross-functional teams.

• Explore new networking technologies with strategic business partners.

• Resolve complex problems, diagnostics and debugging.

• Evaluation of new technologies which will add value and growth to the company.

Qualifications:

• CCIE-level certification REQUIRED.

• 7+ years experience in networking.

• Experience with high performance networking.

• Strong routing, switching, and security experience.

• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, and Multicast.

• AAA, VPN, PIX firewall experience.

• Market data feed experience.

• QOS experience.

• Expert knowledge of packet collection and analysis.

• Financial industry experience.

• Ability to work well with others.

• Understand of virtualization and its impact to the data center.

• Network capacity planning, network performance and measurement skills.

• Can perform advanced troubleshooting skills and resolve complex network problems.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent documentation and knowledge management skills.

• Experience with network management tools such as Solarwinds, NetScout, CiscoWorks.

• BS or BA degree required.

Job Keywords: CCIE