Position Overview:
The role of the Ultra Low Latency Network Specialist is to ensure the stability and integrity of all aspects that comprise the Squarepoint global trading collocation network which includes infrastructure in 30 data centre sites across AMER, APAC and EMEA.
The Ultra Low Latency Network Specialist will oversee and participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization, and documentation of all network hardware, security hardware, software and connectivity. This includes managing multiple projects and configuring/optimizing the network to ensure ultra-low latency is achieved for intraday trading and direct market access systems. This team collaborates and are closely aligned with trading systems developers, enabling the technology team to deliver an optimal trading platform.
Architect, engineer and aid in initial deployment of ultra-low latency network infrastructure at Colocation data centres (DC)
Ensure comprehensive operational control and reporting, providing actionable information to optimize the performance of the trading infrastructure. Build/update procedures and documentation
Escalation point to support changes to the global collocation environment in all Squarepoint co-location sites and data centres. Travel may be required
Provide L3 escalation support to remediate performance and availability issues
Identify areas for generating efficiencies adopting automation and innovative solutions for improvements.
Required Qualifications:
Degree in Electrical or Computer engineering, Computer Science or related Information Technology discipline
CCIE Routing & Switching (Enterprise Infrastructure) certified including lab
Minimum of 8 years of network engineering and project delivery experience
Extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols
Unicast: OSPF, BGP, NAT, IPSEC and GRE
Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP
Switching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLAN
Authoritative level experience and skill with Arista and Cisco network switching, routing hardware, L1 devices and software
Outstanding knowledge of network monitoring PCAP decoding tools landscape
Proficient in a scripting language - Python preferred
Trade flow analysis: Understanding protocols used by various exchanges: FIX, BOE, OUCH/ITCH, PILLAR, SBE, OMEX
Familiarity with different network switch vendors and different switch architectures.
Experience with working with FPGA based applications and L1 network design.
Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.