Network Engineering Manager

Company: Trading Technologies International
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

We are seeking a technical manager to lead our network engineering team with a vision and guidance to define and support The Company's strategy. This role will be key in designing our network and growing the skills and value of our global engineering team. Driving Standardization and Innovation in our infrastructure.What Will You Be Involved With?

• Develop a multi-year strategy and roadmap to manage network growth, capacity, and evolving priorities.
• Prioritize initiatives to satisfy business requirements amongst internal improvements.
• Manage our hardware lifecycle.
• Collaborate with internal groups to gather requirements, propose designs, implement solutions, and support our global trading infrastructure. Work with project management groups to define priorities and timelines.
• Establish and maintain robust and secure network connections between on-premise data centers and cloud, ensuring optimal performance and high availability.
• Take charge of implementing and overseeing automated network deployments and monitoring tools. This includes designing, configuring, and enhancing monitoring systems, and ensuring seamless operation and integration with existing network infrastructure.
• Be available at all times for issue escalation and to provide team support. Routinely work weekends and off hours to support changes outside of market hours.What Will You Bring to the Table?
  • 5+ years of managing or leading Network Engineering Operations. Trading industry experience required.
  • 10+ years of network engineering and operations experience, with deep design, implementation, and support experience.
  • Experience managing many projects and workflows with changing priorities, making use of tools like Jira / Kanban.
  • Have a relentless tenacity for solving complex technical problems.
  • Experience using Python, Ansible, and Jinja2 to build automations and manage the network as code.
  • Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, PIM/Multicast, MPLS.
  • Experience with timing infrastructure such as GPS, PTP, PPS, and NTP.
  • Experience with site-to-site VPNs and firewalls.
  • Experience with AWS cloud networking concepts and comfortable deploying them.
  • Experience deploying and supporting multiple vendors: Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Accedian.
  • Experience with operating Linux systems.
  • Passionate about high-quality work and relentlessly pursue continuous improvement.
  • Good with people and able to explain complex problems in a non-technical way for others to understand, both in writing and verbally.Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience with network testing tools like Spirent and Ixia for building scale model tests of network infrastructure.
    • Experience building and deploying databases.
    • Experience building tools and front-end systems to support visualization and data mining.
    • Django web framework experience and understanding.What We Bring to the Table
      • Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, 401(k), and pre-tax transit/parking.
      • Flexible work schedules - with some remote work.
      • 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, one day per year available for volunteering, 2 training days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development, 1 additional PTO day added during a milestone year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents), and backup child and pet care as well as tutoring services.
      • The company provides top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, and office equipment.
      • Milestone anniversary bonuses.
      • Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums and healthy meal delivery programs).Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company's award-winning TT platform connects to the world's major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world's leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT's technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies' global client base through the TT ecosystem.Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies' practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
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