Network Engineer

Position Summary
The network team designs, implements, and supports the network infrastructure for Wolverine’s proprietary real-time trading systems including proprietary hardware platforms with a focus on low latency. Network performance and redundancy are critical to the success of the global trading operation. The network engineer will be part of a team that works with Wolverine’s software engineers and traders to satisfy the high availability of the electronic trading infrastructure.

This will be a local position in the NYC/NJ area.  The candidate will have about a 50/50 mix of working from home and working in the office at 111 Broadway, NYC. This position will also be expected to travel locally to NJ area data centers when necessary.    

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, implement network solutions based on requirements from business stakeholders
• Own and manage strategic projects to implement and optimize low latency, high-performance network solutions at and between various data center locations
• Work with financial exchanges, brokers, and banks to implement network connectivity in shared colocation facilities
• Carry out high-level analysis and troubleshooting of the network infrastructure
• Respond to network requests, troubleshoot network failures to diagnose, isolate and resolve complex problems ensuring timely results and minimal disruption of operations
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including patches and hotfixes to address vendor bugs and vulnerabilities
• Monitor system resource utilization, historical trends, and perform capacity planning
• Provide technical knowledge needed to ensure safe, effective, and efficient changes to the network infrastructure
• Participate in team on-call rotation cycle
• Occasionally travel to other Wolverine locations and local travel between the office and NJ area datacenters

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years in a technical networking environment as a network engineer
• Hands-on knowledge and experience of complex network designs and principles, L2 switching, dynamic routing (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), firewalling (ASA, PaloAlto), and VPN (Site-to-Site IPSec)
• Extensive knowledge of network operating systems (IOS / NX-OS / EOS / PANOS based network devices)
• Solid knowledge of multicast and real-time exchange market data feeds
• Ability to troubleshoot network latency and packet drop issues
• Hands-on experience with network monitoring, diagnostic and analytics tools
• Experience with physical planning, implementing, and supporting space, power, and structured cabling within a data center environment
• Experience with troubleshooting fiber optic connectivity in and between data center locations is a plus
• Experience working with financial exchanges, brokers, and banks is a plus
• Interest in the financial trading industry is a plus

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and scripting languages such as Python
• Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of network time synchronization protocols

About Wolverine
Founded in 1994, the Wolverine companies comprise a number of diversified financial institutions specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. We are recognized as a market leader in derivatives valuation, trading, and value-added order execution across global equity, options, and futures markets. With a focus on innovation, achievement, and integrity, we take pride in serving the interests of both our clients and colleagues. The Wolverine companies are headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York and San Francisco and a proprietary trading affiliate office located in London.
 

Sponsorship is not available for this position.