Network Engineer - High Performance Networks

About the role

Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm whose Core Engineering Markets team provides trading strategies with access to a wide range of global financial markets. This Network Engineer role works with high-performance, low-latency networks at co-locations worldwide, supporting the infrastructure that underpins the firm's trading operations.

Key responsibilities

• Work with high-performance, low-latency networks at co-locations across the globe
• Support high-performance computing, low-latency infrastructure, multicast, routing, switching and security
• Design and support networks for co-location, data center and office environments
• Monitor and troubleshoot the network with the global team
• Perform moves, adds and changes to the network infrastructure
• Run market connectivity tests and circuit migrations, and help optimize network infrastructure
• Assist data center and project teams with infrastructure migrations
• Take part in an on-call rotation and weekend work for network maintenance
• Liaise with third parties and telco carriers and exchanges to maintain telecommunication circuits and data center network infrastructure

Required profile

• At least 5 years of theoretical and practical experience with complex, high-performance networks in a large financial, enterprise or service provider environment
• Ability to document network topology and design

Required skills

• Client-server architecture and network design
• Arista EOS, Cisco IOS, Nexus-OS and PAN-OS
• BGP, OSPF, PIM and MSDP; IPSec and GRE VPNs; Fortinet and Palo Alto security appliances
• MRTG, Graphite, Grafana, Nagios and other SNMP-based monitoring tools
• Python scripting for automation and Unix/Linux system administration

What we offer

• Paid time off, savings plans and financial wellness tools by region
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free breakfast, lunch and snacks daily, plus wellness reimbursement
• Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events, volunteer opportunities and social events
• Workshops and continuous learning