The Network Engineer will join the Network Reliability Engineering team, focusing on deploying and supporting network infrastructure and security appliances. Responsibilities include optimizing network infrastructure, performing circuit migrations, monitoring and troubleshooting networks, and coordinating with third parties for telecommunication and data center maintenance.
Tower Research Capital, a high-frequency proprietary trading firm founded in 1998, seeks a Network Engineer to join our Network Reliability Engineering team in Singapore. The Network Reliability Engineering team is responsible for the deployment and support of network infrastructure as well as security appliances.
Responsibilities
- Working with high performance and low latency network at co-locations across the globe
- Working with the latest technologies related to high performance computing, low latency infrastructure, multicast, routing, switching, and security
- Providing network design and support for co-location, data center and office environments
- Working with the global team to monitor and troubleshoot the network
- Performing moves, adds, and changes to the network infrastructure
- Performing market connectivity tests and circuit migrations
- Leading efforts to optimize network infrastructure
- Assisting data center and project teams with infrastructure migrations
- Taking part in an on-call rotation and weekend work to handle network maintenance
- Liaising with third parties to maintain telecommunication circuits and datacenter infrastructure
- Working with external parties (Telco carriers. Exchanges, etc.) to maintain communication lines and data center network infrastructure
Qualifications
- At least 6-8 years of experience (theoretical & practical) working with complex, high performance networks in a large financial/enterprise environment or service provider environment
- Experience with client-server architecture and network design
- Experience with Arista EOS, Cisco IOS, Nexus-OS, and PAN-OS
- Experience with routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) and multicast (PIM, MSDP)
- Experience with implementing and troubleshooting above hardware, OS and protocols
- Experience with network support tools such as MRTG, Graphite, Grafana, Nagios and other SNMP based protocol
- Experience with python scripting to facilitate automation of tasks
- Experience with VPNSs (IPSec, GRE) and security appliances (Fortinet, Palo Alto)
- Experience with Unix/Linux OS (system administration)
- Ability to document network topology/design
Benefits
Tower continues to enhance the in-house trading system and strategies that have positioned the firm as a leader in the thriving field of quantitative trading. While Tower offers challenges and rewards rivaling those of any Wall Street firm, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and discretionary bonuses
- 5 weeks of paid vacation per year
- Breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
- International medical insurance
- Gym membership
- For employees ineligible to participate in the CPF, the cash equivalent of the employer’s CPF contribution
- Free events and workshops
- Donation matching program
Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.
Top Skills
Python
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