Network Engineer
About The Position
Optiver’s proprietary trading systems rely on reliable, scalable, and fast network connectivity and physical infrastructure to support trading activities on financial exchanges worldwide. The Network Engineer helps ensure traders and engineers receive market data accurately and quickly, directly supporting the business. The role covers low-latency networking, network automation, WAN technologies, data center networks, and colocation design. The engineer deploys and manages network infrastructure, improves connectivity and performance, supports planned maintenance, and contributes to capacity planning, traffic optimization, and automation across Optiver’s global data center presence.
Requirements
- Strong network and performance monitoring skills and knowledge of network capacity planning.
- Experience working across LAN and global WAN networks.
- Experience troubleshooting network transport protocols, including TCP and UDP.
- Deep understanding and experience with routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, and network protocols such as Multicast, Spanning Tree, and HSRP.
- Experience with networking monitoring and alerting systems.
- Belief that good documentation supports successful project delivery.
- Drive for improvement and motivation to push through friction.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Cisco and Arista network equipment.
- Network automation experience with strong Python scripting skills.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage network infrastructure.
- Design new colocations and improve connectivity in existing colocations and the data center network.
- Identify, recommend, and implement network system optimizations and solutions that deliver information quickly.
- Assist with planned maintenance, including migrations, expansions, and hardware and software upgrades.
- Provide technical expertise and support to a high-frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment.
- Ensure the WAN network links together across the global data center presence.
- Contribute to capacity planning and traffic flow optimization.
- Advance intelligent automation.
- Address technical debt and reduce complexity.
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package.
- Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure.
- 401(k) match up to 50%.
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage.
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays.
- Office perks including breakfast, lunch, snacks, regular social events, clubs, and sporting leagues.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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