Network Engineer

Description

MEMX is searching for a Network Engineer to support the design, implementation and maintenance of its low latency trading infrastructure for second shift 12 AM - 9 AM ET weekdays Monday through Friday. 

Shift time for this role will be: 12 AM - 9 AM ET

MEMX currently has a U.S. presence in these states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, & Utah.     

*If you live outside of the above states, please list in your application and our team will evaluate.    

What You’ll Do    

• Work to design, implement and support the low latency exchange network environment

• Configure the enterprise and production network devices with Ansible and Python as required

• Respond to network alerts and error logs

• Respond to network incidents, remediate, and perform RCA

• Perform new customer connection turn-ups

• Work on customer tickets such as add/mod IP prefixes, troubleshoot connectivity

• Perform new product analysis and validation

• Coordinate with the Security and business teams to help engineer/implement secure end user solutions

• Work with Data Center and Circuit providers to continually move the exchange infrastructure forward on more cost efficient and performant options

Requirements   

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with low latency, highly available distributed systems and the network architectures needed to run them

• Understanding of layer2 and layer3 network protocols e.g. IGMP, MLAG, ARP, BGP, NAT, PIM

• Understanding of IP multicast routing e.g. PIM-SM, PIM-Bidir  

• Experience with network operating systems (EOS, IOS, PanOS)   

• Understanding of timing protocols NTP,PTP

• Understanding of various optical fiber types and transceivers

• Scripting experience (Python, Ansible) preferred

• Ability to analyze packet captures using tools like Wirshark, tcpdump  

• Mac, Linux familiarity preferred