Senior Network Architect - HFT
Quant Capital
- London
- £140,000-200,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Taking a lead in the design, configuration, and maintenance of our global infrastructure, with a primary emphasis on low latency and proprietary hardware platforms.
- Proactively identifying opportunities for improvements in existing configurations, technologies, and procedures to enhance overall network performance.
- Providing hands-on operational support for our high-performance global wireless and wired networks.
- Leveraging both proprietary and industry-standard monitoring and analysis tools to swiftly identify, diagnose, and resolve network-related issues across our expansive global infrastructure.
- Contributing to the comprehensive documentation of network processes, systems, and configurations for enhanced organizational clarity.
- Designing and executing the implementation of novel monitoring and telemetry systems when appropriate, empowering us with greater network visibility.
- Actively participating in critical network change and code reviews, ensuring the continuous improvement of our network environment.
- Collaborating effectively with software and infrastructure teams to conceive, maintain, and elevate our internal tool stack, streamlining operations and productivity.
- Utilise automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and daily network processes, driving operational efficiency and reliability.
- 10+ years of experience working with large-scale enterprise or ideally low-latency networks.
- Experience managing large-scale networks, infrastructure, or software projects.
- Expertise in producing network design and architecture documents.
- In-depth knowledge of Internet, WAN, LAN, and data center network architectures.
- Strong fundamentals in Routing & Switching, including experience configuring routing for BGP, OSPF, or EIGRP and familiarity with multicast protocols (IGMP, PIM).
- CCIE
- Proficiency in Linux, covering boot sequence, service management, file, process, network, and kernel management.
- Ability to deploy and operate monitoring frameworks such as Cacti, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, or Tick stack.
- Strong firewall experience (Checkpoint, Fortigate, Palo Alto, etc.).
- Scripting Python/Go/ similar
- Willingness to participate in a rotating on-call schedule, including weekends.