Senior Network Engineer

Hedge Fund; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment manager in New York seeks a network engineer to join their infrastructure team. The role focuses on architecting and overseeing network solutions, especially colocation infrastructure. Candidates should be skilled in high-performance networking with knowledge of vendor products from Cisco, Arista, and Fortinet. Expertise in delivering complex networks through software-driven methods is crucial. The position offers an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment with a focus on ultra-low latency trading infrastructures.

Qualifications

• Ability to partner closely within teams.
• Expert knowledge of software-driven network architectures.
• Deep knowledge of ultra-low latency infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and oversee network infrastructure delivery.
• Manage lifecycle components for core network switching.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver complex network solutions.

Skills

Collaboration with project management teams

Accountability for complex network infrastructures

Delivering complex network architectures

High-performance computing knowledge

Building engineering relationships with vendors

Wide area network engineering

Tools

Cisco

Arista

Fortinet

Job description

Global quantitative and systematic investment manager is looking for a network engineer to join their infrastructure team. This person will be responsible for architecting, engineering, and subsequent delivery oversight across all aspects of their network estate but with particular focus on their colocation infrastructure. The trading infrastructure is a combination of wide area connectivity and ultra-low latency trading infrastructures.

The team will deliver network solutions which enable full lifecycle management (architect, design, build, operate, retire) for their network components across core network switching, firewalls, load balancers, instrumentation/telemetry, network CMDB, and automation. It is crucial that this person must be able to demonstrate delivery of complex networks, at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation-driven mindset.

This person will gain deep knowledge of high-performance networking, including detailed knowledge of the product capabilities and roadmaps from the likes of Cisco, Arista and Fortinet. In addition, they will have direct experience of delivering and managing network solutions supporting corporate infrastructure and exchange specific ultra-low latency infrastructure with associated automation, telemetry and instrumentation frameworks.

Qualifications:

• Ability to partner closely with the project management teams and work in a highly collaborative manner within the network team and the wider organization
• Capable of direct responsibility and accountability for a complex and high-performance network infrastructures
• Expert knowledge of delivering complex network architectures delivered via software driven and agile methodology
• Deep knowledge of delivering networks supporting high-performance and low latency computing architectures
• Deep knowledge of the network vendor ecosystem and be able to demonstrate building engineering relationships at senior layers with vendor product and engineering teams
• Knowledge of wide area network engineering focused on traffic prioritization and steering.It would be good to have experience of Segment Routing.