Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.
The Maven Infrastructure team is a set of broad-minded technologists with diverse backgrounds, who focus on continuously improving the end-to-end performance, resiliency, scalability, visibility, and supportability of Maven's computing systems.
As a Network Engineer within our Infrastructure team, you will build a deep understanding of the data flows of Maven's trading systems, building network infrastructure and working collaboratively to optimize the performance of those systems. Your primary focus will be to work with developers, traders, and other infrastructure engineers to optimize our US network and datacenter infrastructure, but you’ll work closely with our global team of engineers to ensure we have a strong global network.
What you will be doing:
- Design, configure, and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across teams to optimize for low latency trading applications.
- Build, support, and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment
- Take an automated, data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro-bursting, jitter and queuing.
- Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
- Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation
- Contribute to the documentation of network processes, systems, and configurations
- Collaborate with systems teams to build and manage manage datacenter infrastructure
- Maintain network security infrastructure to ensure perimeter protection and that internal environments remain appropriately separated
What we’re looking for:
- Previous experience working on complex, high performance networks at a global scale
- Demonstrable experience implementing complex projects from initiation through production handover
- Experience with point to point low latency wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
- Passionate about troubleshooting and getting to the root cause of incidents
- Be experienced with net-ops tools for configuration management, and network monitoring and analysis
- Experience with Cisco, Arista, and/or Juniper hardware and the associated network operating systems
- Experience working with high performance networking fabrics or matrix switches
- Experience with optical tap and packet capture infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of multicast networking and configuration
- Strong working knowledge of Linux
- Scripting skills in python to automate tasks and perform analysis
- CCIE level knowledge and experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience collaborating in global teams
What we offer:
- Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly ambitious trading firm.
- A decentralised global engineering environment
- Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
- Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact
Skills Required
- Experience working on complex, high performance networks at a global scale
- Demonstrable experience implementing complex projects from initiation through production handover
- Experience with point to point low latency wireless networks and RF principles
- Experience with net-ops tools for configuration management, network monitoring and analysis
- Experience with Cisco, Arista, and/or Juniper hardware and associated network operating systems
- Experience working with high performance networking fabrics or matrix switches
- Experience with optical tap and packet capture infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of multicast networking and configuration
- Strong working knowledge of Linux
- Scripting skills in Python to automate tasks and perform analysis
- CCIE level knowledge and experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience collaborating in global teams
What We Do
Maven implements both fundamental and quantitative trading & market making strategies across global financial markets, utilising only the group’s capital. We see ourselves just as much a technology firm as a multi-strat trading firm. We aim to equip our traders with the best tools we can. We channel the advances in computer learning, processing power and network capacity into streamlining and improving all aspects of the trading operation, from front office to settlements. This is paired with meticulous and attentive execution and conservative risk management. If you would like to learn more about working at Maven please visit: https://www.mavensecurities.com/work-at-maven/
