The Voleon Group

Senior Network Engineer

Posted 5 Days Ago

2 Locations

Hybrid

170K-205K

Senior level

Financial Services

The Role

As a Senior Network Engineer, you'll design and maintain secure and scalable network infrastructure, collaborate with diverse teams, and ensure high availability and performance in operations.

Summary Generated by Built In

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

Your Team

As a Senior Network Engineer, you’ll architect, build, and evolve the connective fabric that powers every part of the firm. From routing and switching at the core to secure edge access and cloud connectivity, you’ll design, deploy, and maintain resilient infrastructure that scales with a fast-growing, research-driven organization. You’ll be a senior member of NetOps - an adaptable, high-trust team that partners daily with a dynamic team of software, research, and systems engineers to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, observable, and secure reality. Your impact will be obvious in uptime gained, latency reduced, incidents prevented, and the velocity you unlock for the business. This role is meant to make a difference; you will maintain the backbone of a rapidly growing technology enterprise.

Responsibilities

Refine/Define topology of corporate and production network
Build out highly available and scalable network infrastructure
Utilize Automation/IAC tools to create reproducible and audited configurations
Enhance network monitoring infrastructure
Participate in an on-call rotation (after building context on our systems and operations)

Requirements

At least five years of professional networking experience with increasing responsibility and scope of work
Strong background in enterprise switching (Juniper preferred) and high-speed networks supporting distributed storage solutions. Hands-on expertise with next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent)
Deep understanding of TCP/IP and networking protocols such as VLANs, MSTP, OSPF, BGP, LAG, mLAG, virtual chassis, IPSec
Expertise in modern network security solutions (Zero Trust, SASE, IAM, NAC) to ensure seamless and secure integrations
Proficiency in using automation tools for reproducible network configurations
Hands-on experience with hardware setup, including racking, stacking, and cabling networking hardware
Proficient with Linux OS
Eagerness to collaborate with diverse teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience scripting with Python or other interpreted language
Experience with Cloud networking
Experience with Configuration Management and Source Control
Experience designing or operating networks in low-latency, high-performance computing (HPC) or financial trading environments

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $170,000 to $205,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

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Top Skills

Automation

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Cloud Networking

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Linux

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The Company

HQ: Berkeley, CA

169 Employees

Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.

The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.

Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.