Network Engineer

We are looking for a Network Engineer to join our Chicago office. The network engineering team plays a vital role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the network infrastructure that drives our low-latency, high-performance trading systems. Our team is passionate about sharing knowledge and collaborating with traders, developers, quants, and performance engineers to solve complex problems that allow IMC to maintain a competitive edge in the financial markets.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Design, implement and support the North American networking infrastructure. Key areas of expertise include Low-latency networking, Unicast and Multicast routing, BGP, PIM-SM, as well as more advanced topics like performance tuning, gap analysis, and automation
• Monitor and analyze the proper functioning of our network infrastructure using currently available tools, and contribute ideas for new tools
• Proactively improve our infrastructure by contributing code to our automation efforts (e.g. Bash, Python, Ansible, AWX)
• Accurately create and maintain documentation detailing the IMC network, including relevant procedures
• Help support our IT security related platforms. Key areas include Palo Alto firewalls and client VPN, site-to-site VPNs, authentication systems, etc.
• Communicate with external vendors, exchanges and providers to explore new technology solutions, implement new services or troubleshoot problems

Your Skills and Experience: 

• 8+ years of network engineering focused experience
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on wide variety of networking issues, including common Ethernet LAN problems, unicast and multicast routing, switching, packet analysis, and VPN remote access
• Experience with multiple different network switching hardware platforms
• Direct hands-on coding or scripting and automation with Python, Ansible, etc., is a plus
• CCIE or CCNP certification is a plus
• Experience within the trading or financial industry is highly preferred