Senior Network Engineer

As a Senior 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.

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. We are an ideal environment for those who are self-motivated, engineering-focused, pragmatic, and who truly enjoy creating and operating large, highly-available, and performant systems. Our team is lean and our management philosophy values the autonomy of our people.

You'll help tastytrade exceed this goal by bringing a detail-oriented approach, be up to date with current and future networking technologies, proactively identifying 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 possible for the best possible customer experience.

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

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the rest of the tastytrade network team to help design, implement, and manage tastytrade's network infrastructure
• Leverage automation skills and take a "dev ops" approach to improve efficiency and resiliency of the network environment
• Contribute to the advancement of our monitoring and alerting systems
• Maintain comprehensive network diagrams and documentation
• Monitor, guard and analyze the network infrastructure from threats
• Partner with 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 resolution
• Participate in a network on-call rotation
• Assist with data center operations, maintenance, migrations and upgrades

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field experience
• CCNP or equivalent cert or network experience
• Strong understanding of switching and routing concepts
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP stack, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, and Linux
• Advanced understanding of protocols including BGP, Vxlan, and vPCs
• Experience supporting mission-critical, production network infrastructure
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work in a team environment
• Desire to master your craft and become a subject matter expert
• Familiarity with Cloud Network Infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
• Ability to lift up to 75lbs and work in a datacenter environment

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package, including performance bonuses, stock purchase options, 401k plan, educational support, paid time off, and various other perks.