About this opportunity
Autonomai Recruitment lists this Network Engineer opportunity in city of chicago, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Low Latency Network Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)
Location: Chicago
Type: Permanent
Experience: 10 plus years in network/infrastructure engineering (trading/HFT experience strongly preferred)
Design, build and support the high-performance network that powers a proprietary trading firm's global strategy. You'll work on ultra-low-latency LAN/WAN, multicast market-data distribution and exchange connectivity across colocation data centres, with a heavy focus on performance, resilience and automation. This role sits at the core of the trading platform—close to traders, developers and infrastructure teams—where microsecond-level improvements matter.
What you'll do
Design, implement and maintain low-latency network infrastructure for trading applications (Arista/Cisco, leaf–spine, bare-metal servers).
Configure and tune Layer 2/3 protocols: BGP, OSPF, VRF, PIM/IGMP, multicast, QoS, STP, NAT.
Support exchange connectivity, cross-connects and colocation deployments;
work with carriers and data-centre teams.
Troubleshoot latency, jitter, packet loss and microbursts using tcpdump, Wireshark, NIC stats and switch telemetry.
Automate network changes and validations using Python, Bash and/or Ansible;
contribute to IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
Monitor network health and performance;
create dashboards and alerts for proactive incident management.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics/Telecommunications or related field.
10 plus years of hands-on networking experience, ideally in HFT, prop trading, exchanges or other latency-sensitive environments.
Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, routing (BGP/OSPF), switching, VLANs and data-centre networking.
Practical experience with Arista and/or Cisco NX-OS in production trading or financial-services environments.
Strong Linux networking fundamentals;
comfortable working in a terminal and with performance tooling.
Proven troubleshooting skills for low-latency issues (packet captures, NIC/driver tuning, switch buffers, PTP/NTP).
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Worksite address
city of chicago, IL, 60290, US
Who can apply
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