Global Quant Trading Network Architect

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadingnation in Hong Kong seeks an experienced Network Engineer specializing in quantitative trading network architectures and data center engineering. You will design, build, and optimize a top-tier, highly reliable network and server infrastructure for a high-frequency trading environment.

You will lead colocation build-out, migrations, and decoupling projects, deploy hardware-timestamped capture solutions, and build precise observability and monitoring systems to ensure data integrity and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on data center network engineering experience, ideally within quantitative funds, proprietary trading firms, exchanges, or financial market access vendors.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Design & Architecture: Design and deploy high-reliability, full-stack network and server infrastructure solutions tailored for quantitative trading operations.
• Project Leadership: Lead data center migrations, facilitate business domain architecture decoupling, and execute end-to-end performance tuning projects.
• Observability & Performance Monitoring: Build network monitoring, anomaly alerting, and rapid troubleshooting systems. Establish a unified, hardware-timestamp base network capture across complex trading environments.
• Exchange Colocation & Connectivity: Oversee exchange colocation (proximity hosting) deployments, manage dedicated point-to-point leased lines, and optimize multicast market data distribution paths.

Skills

Python scripting

English communication

TCP/IP mastery

Routing protocols (BGP/OSPF/PIM)

Multicast (PIM/IGMP)

Data center networking

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

PCAP analysis tools

Job description

Leadingnation in Hong Kong seeks an experienced Network Engineer specializing in quantitative trading network architectures and data center engineering. You will design, build, and optimize a top-tier, highly reliable network and server infrastructure for a high-frequency trading environment.

You will lead colocation build-out, migrations, and decoupling projects, deploy hardware-timestamped capture solutions, and build precise observability and monitoring systems to ensure data integrity and