Infrastructure Engineer

About Jump Trading Group

Jump Trading Group is committed to world-class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk-adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

About Production Infrastructure

Production Infrastructure is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build, and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From colo design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world-class low latent Wide Area Networks, we leverage research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

What You'll Do:

• Work with multiple teams to implement and optimize network infrastructure for proprietary low latency trading applications at various data centers throughout the world.
• Identify technical challenges and conduct technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Take an automated data-driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues.
• Utilize monitoring tools to locate, diagnose, and resolve network-related issues throughout the infrastructure.
• Communicate impact of network-related issues to traders, developers, and other business resources.
• Support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high-performance network environment.
• Leverage automation skills and take a “DevOps” approach to improve efficiency of solving complex network infrastructure issues, network management, and maintenance of trading applications.
• Assist in documentation of new processes and procedures to improve team efficiency.
• Demonstrates a high level of energy, results-driven, and able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• At least 5+ years of hands-on networking experience.
• CCNP certification or equivalent.
• Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting of IP networking and TCP/IP.
• Advanced knowledge of Switching, Routing (BGP), and Multicast (IGMP, PIM).
• Knowledge of Linux Administration and scripting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well as part of a global team in a fast-paced environment. Encourages participation and values collaboration with all team members spread across multiple offices.
• Demonstrates good judgment, ability to evaluate short and long-term impact, and confidence to select and execute decisions when required and take full responsibility for end results.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Key skills/competency

• Network Infrastructure
• Low Latency Trading
• Data Center Networking
• BGP Routing
• Multicast Networking
• Linux Administration
• Scripting
• DevOps
• Troubleshooting
• Network Optimization