Senior Low Latency Network Engineer - Bloomberg Broadway

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