Senior Network Engineer

Posted 19 Days Ago
New York, NY
In-Office
150K-200K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The Senior Network Engineer will design and support a global trading network, manage context feeds, enforce security, and develop automation scripts.
Summary Generated by Built In

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and support a global multi-vendor trading network.
  • Lead greenfield buildouts of colocation and proximity datacenters, ensuring resiliency, performance, and compliance.
  • Manage multicast market data feeds across global exchanges and provide direct support to algorithmic trading teams.
  • Own and enforce perimeter security with Palo Alto NGFW, including VPN tunnels, NAT, and strict policy design.
  • Support and optimize PTP/NTP timing infrastructure critical to trading environments.
  • Develop automation scripts using Python/Ansible to increase operational efficiency
  • Configure and maintain F5 LTM/GTM for IP traffic management and DNS load balancing.
  • Troubleshoot complex network issues using tcpdump, Wireshark, and other packet analysis tools.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to align network priorities with trading strategies.
  • Maintain detailed network documentation, enhance monitoring, and provide 24x7 on-call support.
  • Plan global circuit capacity to ensure scalability and performance.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in engineering, implementing, and maintaining enterprise or trading networks.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Networking, Cybersecurity, or related IT field.
  • Deep expertise in routing and multicast protocols (BGP, OSPF, PIM, IGMP) and associated best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with Arista, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Palo Alto firewalls, and F5 LTM/GTM.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across LAN, WAN, and multicast environments.
  • Experience with colocation datacenter build processes (power, cooling, cross-connects); Equinix exposure preferred.
  • Practical knowledge of PTP timing architectures for trading.
  • Experience with cloud networking (AWS preferred).
  • Proficiency with Linux networking tools (ethtool, tcpdump) and automation (Python, Ansible).
  • Familiarity with firewall policy administration, VPN, and NAT.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to work closely with traders and stakeholders.
  • Expert-level certifications (CCIE, JNCIE, or equivalent) desired.

Salary Range
$150,000$200,000 USD

Top Skills

Ansible
Arista
Cisco Catalyst,Nexus
F5 Gtm
F5 Ltm
Palo Alto Ngfw
Python
Tcpdump
Wireshark
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The Company
638 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.

Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.

Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.

To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]

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