Network Engineer

Jump Trading Jump Trading · Quant · Chicago, New York City · IT Infrastructure + WCW

Network Engineer role at Jump Trading, focusing on designing, building, and maintaining high-performance global network infrastructure for low-latency trading applications. Requires extensive networking experience, scripting, automation, and knowledge of various hardware and monitoring tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, configure and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across multiple teams to optimize for proprietary low latency trading applications.
  2. Support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment
  3. Take an automated, data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro-bursting, jitter and queuing.
  4. Leverage automation skills and take a “dev ops” approach to improve efficiency of network management, deployment and maintenance of propriety trading applications.
  5. Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of networking experience
  • 1+ year of scripting experience (Python preferred)
  • expertise with GIT and REST or JSON
  • Experience supporting a large-scale global network environment
  • Advance knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking, TCP/ IP
  • Advance knowledge of Switching, Routing (BGP, OSPF) and Multicast (IGMP, PIM)
  • Experience working with one or more of the following hardware platforms (Cisco, Mellanox, Arista)
  • Experience working with automation tools (ie, Ansible)
  • Strong Linux Shell (all utilities) experience
  • CCIE certification or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Experience with databases and big data tools (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Splunk, InfluxDB, Grafana)
  • Experience with monitoring tools (i.e. Icinga, Splunk, Kapacitor)
  • Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Information Technology)
  • Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes

What the JD emphasized

  • proprietary low latency trading applications
  • high performance network
  • complex network infrastructure issues
  • automation skills
  • global network initiatives