Position: Network Engineer
Location: Rockville, MD (Onsite)
Description: 12 months
Job Description : 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
Education: At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required.
Thanks, and regards
Ganesh Gorak
ganesh.g@itechus.net
Itech Us Inc
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