Senior Low Latency Network Engineer - Bloomberg Broadway
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Broadway is a leading provider of high-performance trading solutions. We've delivered some of the world’s most advanced systems to a who’s who customer list that includes the largest global banks. Our software manages billions of dollars in transactions daily.
Within the Bloomberg Broadway Team, the Greyspan Team specializes in delivering Low-Latency Trading Infrastructure to Bloomberg Broadway’s Fixed Income Customers, as well as some FX and other software solutions that require our special mix of Co-location, Low Latency Switching, Venue Connectivity and tuned and configured servers and solutions that host customers trading infrastructure, their peripheral systems requiring a tight integration to the colocation hosted infrastructure and connections to the major cloud providers.
What's in it for you?
- Bloomberg Broadway is looking for a motivated Senior Low Latency Network Engineer who has experience designing and maintaining resilient, mission-critical trading network & server infrastructure for global trading organizations.
- You'll work in a small, agile team deploying new network solutions and infrastructure solutions to new and existing customers across the globe.
We’ll trust you to:
- Manage Broadway’s global trading network. Identify and resolve network failures on both switches and servers and network performance within both the trading environment and development networks.
- Ensure the security of the trading and development networks. Remain current on information security best practices. Recommend and implement security tools, policies and procedures.
- Configure multicast networks, including Multicast PIM Sparse/Dense and IGMP.
- Manage Active Directory in trading environments.
- Collaborate with customers, venues and partner with internal technical teams to make changes to network connectivity.
- Create and maintain documentation for network environments and user documentation for utilizing network services.
- Leverage and expand use of automation across all activities to build operational scale with use of Puppet/Foreman and/or Ansible.
- Manage short and longer term projects while owning day to day issues to resolution, keeping stakeholders informed of the issue status.
- iLO/DRAC maintenance, and administration of Dell/HPE servers
- On-call work and weekend work may be required.
What we are looking for:
- Strong knowledge of IP routing, VLANs, Access Control Lists, Multicast and Network Address Translation
- Knowledge on scripting/automation using Python, Bash and Ansible
- Knowledge on Unix systems and how to utilize Low Latency applications
- Solid problem-solving skills in networking, as well overall analytical and organization skills
- Windows or Linux administration (specifically RedHat and Centos) and troubleshooting skill sets
- A commitment to quality and exceptional attention to detail
- Knowledge of, and experience implementing, best practices to enforce network and system security e.g. ISO 27001
- Demonstrated experience in process and system documentation
- Collaboration mindset and the ability to support internal and external clients
You’ll need to have:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in telecommunications, computer engineering, or a related field
- Experience in a senior role, managing switches and other network equipment at L2/L3, connecting international data centers, customer sites and market partners
- Experience managing production systems across multiple, global sites
- Experience securing edge infrastructure with firewalls, IDS/IPS products and configuration of VPNs to 3rd parties
We would love to see:
- Experience with network routing inside, outside and between the company and external partners
- Experience in multiple vendor firewall, switching and routing technologies like Arista, Fortigate, Cisco or F5/A10 Networks
- BGP & BFD setup as well as demonstrated experience troubleshooting
- Analyzing network data captures with tools such as Wireshark
- VPN: between sites using IPSec as well as between users and sites.
- Past experience with maintaining network configurations with version control systems
- Experience with Automation Tools (Ansible etc.) and Python scripting or similar