Senior Network Engineer - Full Time

Centraprise; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

A leading IT services company in Texas is looking for a Network Engineer with 20+ years of experience. The role involves providing solutions for the company's datacenters, ensuring low latency for trading systems, and managing various aspects related to market data delivery. Strong knowledge of routing protocols, financial exchanges, and networking tools is essential. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure. This position is full-time, within the Information Technology function.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in networking engineering and related technologies.
• Strong experience working with global financial exchanges for both tick data and FIX order flow.
• In-depth experience with market venue, exchange protocols, and trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions across the company's datacenters and global colocation estate.
• Ensure ultra low/low latency for intraday trading and direct market access systems.
• Manage performance, service availability, and connectivity for market data delivery.

Skills

Network engineering

Routing and switching protocols

Low latency configuration

Communication skills

Scripting and automation

Tools

Cisco Nexus

PCAP decoding tools

Job description

As a Network Engineer you'll provide solutions across the company's datacenters and global colocation estate across the world encompassing all aspects related to collocation sites: site access, equipment procurement, logistics, capacity management (power, space, servers, network ports, etc.), performance management, service availability, connectivity, compute and market data delivery.

Must Have's

• 20+ Years of Experience in networking engineering and related technologies.
• Knowledge and experience in configuring / optimizing the network to ensure ultra low/low latency is achieved for intraday trading and direct market access systems, providing exchange, broker and managed service providers connectivity to support market data delivery and order execution.
• Solid understanding of market venue, exchange protocols (binary, FIX, ITCH, OUCH, Pillar, etc.) and trading systems across multiple asset classes.

Requirements

• Strong Network engineering and project delivery experience
• Advanced knowledge of routing and switching protocols;
• Experience with Unicast: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, NAT, IPSEC and GRE
• Experience with Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP v2, v3
• Experience with Switching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLAN, Spine and Leaf infrastructures.
• In-depth experience with Cisco Nexus network switching, routing hardware and software
• Strong Experience working with Global Financial Exchanges for both tick data and FIX order flow.
• Knowledge of network monitoring PCAP decoding tools landscape (Corvil, SFlow, timestamping (PTP) preferred but not required)
• Knowledge of Algorithmic/DMA/HFT and trading platforms and how the trade lifecycle operates
• Solid understanding of market venue, exchange protocols (binary, FIX, ITCH, OUCH, Pillar, etc.) and trading systems across multiple asset classes
• Strong scripting and automation experience (Python preferred but not required)
• Excellent communication skills; ability to perform under pressure and detail oriented

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)