As a Senior Network Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our complex network infrastructure to ensure low-latency, high-performance systems.
Your expertise will be instrumental in driving the success of our strategies and maintaining our competitive edge in the Life Insurance markets.
Roles & Responsibilities - Design and implement low-latency network solutions: Develop and deploy high-performance network architectures that facilitate the rapid transmission of data to and from various trading platforms, ensuring minimal delays and optimizing trade execution times.
- Network monitoring and performance optimization: Proactively monitor network performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to achieve optimal network efficiency and reliability.
- Troubleshooting and issue resolution: Rapidly diagnose and resolve network-related incidents and outages to minimize downtime and maintain uninterrupted trading operations.
- Network security: Implement robust security measures to safeguard sensitive trading data and protect against cyber threats and attacks, ensuring the utmost integrity of our trading infrastructure.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams: Work closely with software developers, infrastructure teams, and traders to understand their requirements and provide network solutions that align with business needs.
- Network capacity planning: Conduct regular capacity planning assessments to anticipate future requirements and ensure the network can scale to accommodate growing demands.
- Stay updated with industry trends: Keep abreast of the latest networking technologies, trends, and best practices, and evaluate their potential application to improve our trading infrastructure
Required Skills - 10+ years' experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas.
- Proven experience as a Network Engineer in a high-frequency trading or financial services environment.
- Certification in Cisco, CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA technologies would be a benefit.
- Deep knowledge of network protocols, topologies, and architectures, with a focus on low-latency networks and proficiency in configuring and troubleshooting network devices, including routers, switches, and firewalls.
- Experience with network monitoring and analysis tools and automation - an understanding of Python would be beneficial.
- Familiarity with market data feeds, exchange connectivity, and trading platforms (e.g., FIX protocol) is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work well in a fast-paced trading environment. Mandatory to work from office only
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.