Junior Network Engineer

tastytrade empowers individual traders through educational media, trading software, and financial products.
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Description For Junior Network Engineer

As a Junior Network Engineer with tastytrade, you'll be part of the team that builds out the retail brokerage business and supports our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the experience our customer-facing applications create. Our architecture is consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance.

You'll help tastytrade deliver the best possible customer experience by bringing a detail-oriented approach, staying up to date with current and future networking technologies, collaborating to help proactively identify potential issues on tastytrade's infrastructure, and taking on a variety of tasks and projects. Our primary focus is maintaining the most reliable and performant network for the best possible customer experience.

This position is based in tastytrade's Chicago office and requires travel to tastytrade's datacenter locations (greater Chicago and New Jersey) as needed.

The tasty family of companies empowers individual investors and traders by providing educational media, intuitive and powerful trading software, high-speed order execution, competitive pricing, and innovative financial products. The diversity of our offerings and the technology which powers them provide our engineers with exposure to a broad set of tools and the opportunity to dig deep into specific problems. Our teams are lean, and our management philosophy values personal autonomy and those who truly enjoy building and operating large, highly available, and performant systems. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, pragmatic, engineering-focused and have a passion for learning.

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Responsibilities For Junior Network Engineer

  • Collaborate with the rest of the tastytrade network team to help implement and manage tastytrade's network infrastructure
  • Develop automation skills and a DevOps approach, to improve efficiency and resiliency of the network environment
  • Contribute to the advancement of our monitoring and alerting systems
  • Help maintain comprehensive network diagrams and documentation, creating new artifacts where necessary
  • Monitor, guard and analyze the network infrastructure from threats
  • Support the development team to deliver value to tastytrade's customers
  • Provide technical support to employees as needed
  • Troubleshoot network, security or voice related issues through to resolution
  • Participate in a network on-call rotation
  • Assist with data center operations, maintenance, migrations and upgrades

Requirements For Junior Network Engineer

Linux
  • Experience in a Network Engineering role, either professionally, or as part of an internship or work experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field experience
  • CCNA or equivalent cert or network experience
  • Strong foundational understanding of switching and routing concepts
  • Demonstrable experience of managing switching and routing in a medium to large-scale network
  • Sound knowledge of TCP/IP stack, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, and Linux
  • Understanding and working knowledge of protocols including: BGP, Vxlan, and vPCs
  • Experience of supporting production network infrastructure and able to respond to incidents in a calm and efficient manner
  • Take a high degree of ownership in your work, constantly striving to help the team improve the state of the infrastructure
  • Experience of working as part of a larger team, collaborating to deliver agreed business outcomes
  • Desire to master your craft and become a subject matter expert in multiple facets of network infrastructure
  • Able to lift to 75lbs (network equipment, servers, cabling), comfortable working in a datacenter environment, and moving equipment across datacenters

Benefits For Junior Network Engineer

401k
Commuter Benefits
Education Budget
Medical Insurance
Mental Health Assistance
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Stock Purchase Options
  • 401k Plan
  • Continued Education Support
  • 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
  • 10 Paid Sick Days
  • Gym Membership Reimbursement
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Pet Insurance
  • Wellness & Mental Health Programs
  • Charitable Donation Matching
  • Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
  • Daily catered lunch when in the office
  • Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
  • In-building gym
  • CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
  • Office located in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars

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