Network Engineer (Weekend Shift, Full-time)

Jump Trading, LLC.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a talented Network Engineer to enhance its world-class infrastructure. Join a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and creativity, where you'll tackle complex network challenges and optimize performance for proprietary trading applications. Your role will involve leveraging automation and a data-driven approach to improve efficiency in a fast-paced environment. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside industry leaders and make a significant impact on a high-performance network. If you're passionate about technology and eager to drive change, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on networking experience required.
• CCNP certification or equivalent is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Utilize monitoring tools to diagnose and resolve network issues.
• Implement and optimize network infrastructure for low latency trading.

Skills

IP Networking

TCP/IP

Switching

Routing (BGP)

Multicast (IGMP, PIM)

Linux Administration

Scripting

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Production Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business. Being a part of our Global Networking Team, you will get a chance to work closely with some of the brightest minds in the industry and make a large impact on the success of the firm. Successful candidates will have the ability to work on one of the highest performance networks in class with multiple resources at their disposal. We are looking for an exceptional Network Engineer that can work closely with multiple teams and continue to take our infrastructure to the next level.

What You'll Do:

• Utilize monitoring tools to locate, diagnose and resolve network related issues throughout the infrastructure
• Communicate impact of network related issues to traders, developers and other business resources
• Work with multiple teams to implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world
• Take an automated data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues
• Support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment
• Leverage automation skills and take a “dev ops” approach to improve efficiency of solving complex network infrastructure issues, network management, and maintenance of trading applications
• Assist in documentation of new processes and procedures to improve team efficiency
• Demonstrates a high level of energy, results driven and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field preferred
• At least 5+ years of hands-on networking experience
• CCNP certification or equivalent
• Advance knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking and TCP/ IP
• Advance knowledge of Switching, Routing (BGP) and Multicast (IGMP, PIM)
• Basic knowledge of Linux Administration and scripting
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work well as part of global team in a fast-paced environment. Encourages participation and values collaboration with all team members spread across multiple offices
• Demonstrates good judgment, ability to evaluate short and long-term impact, and confidence to select and execute decision when required and take full responsibility for end results
• Willing to work weekend shift schedule
• Reliable and predictable availability