Low Latency Network Engineer - LCT Infrastructure

Location: New York, New York, United States of America

Department: Information Technology

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Network Engineer to join our latency critical trading Infrastructure team.  As part of a global follow the sun team of network engineers in North America, EMEA, and APAC, the Network Engineer focuses on architecture, design, development, deployment, and support of Millennium’s high performance global networks with extreme uptime requirements utilizing cutting edge network technologies.  This role will focus on all aspects of networking including datacenters, market data, co-lo and proximity colocation sites.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Senior engineering role with a focus on low latency network technologies. Balanced mix of project and operations across the low latency trading environment with Market Data, Trading and co-lo design. 

• Serves as the innovation lead to research and brings new network technologies into the firm including RF technologies, low latency transport, routing/switching and compute technologies

• Owns and project manages global network projects from start to finish including requirement gathering, design, cost, implementation and deployment 

• Coordinates installation, tests and troubleshoots our low latency data network platforms and transmission facilities (dark and lit fiber services, Gigabit Ethernet Services, etc)

• Configures, installs, maintains, and provides support for critical software and hardware of the network components. Researches, prices out, and implements data circuits. Designs and implements high availability, low latency Market Data network

• Responsibilities include but not limited to deploying, supporting and troubleshooting the network Infrastructure: documenting the IT Infrastructure, policies, and procedures and performing general user support. Applicants are expected to participate in after-hours work and an on-call rotation   

• Assisting with maintaining system applications using traffic and capacity monitoring tools to track errors and keep network performing optimally

Qualifications/Skills Required:

• Expert in low latency network technologies – Multicast (IGMP, PIM), L2/L3, WAN design, expert in routing (BGP, OSPF)

• Strong experience with PCAP capture and high-accuracy timestamping of capture packets with PTP/PPS

• Experience working with both lit and dark fiber, and muxing

• 5+ years of experience in a network engineering, operations, and support function

• Experience with Arista, Cisco and L1 switches. Knowledge of FPGA and high-performance computer technology is a plus

• Proven ability to work hands on and take on a strong technical ownership capability in a global organization. 

• Expert knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking, TCP/IP

• Experience with Python and bash. Knowledge of scripting to automate tasks

• Strong Linux shell experience

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills

• Proven ability operating in a fast-paced environment

• Passion for providing a high level of service and support to internal customers

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future. Millennium pays a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package. When finalizing an offer, we take into consideration an individual’s experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.