About the job

Network Engineer - Systematic Trading Firm | Up to £150K Base

A high-growth systematic trading firm is looking for a highly skilled Network Engineer to help scale and modernise their infrastructure. You’ll play a critical role in designing and implementing advanced networking solutions across LAN, WAN, Data Centre, Colo, Campus, and Cloud environments. Upcoming project work includes the likes of EVPN and VxLAN implementation in conjunction with a modernised architectural design, and also multiple international data centre builds. This hire will also be responsible for proactively finding opportunities for network automation, improving the likes of monitoring capabilities.

Company Highlights:

Over £100bn AUM, trading a broad range of asset classes

Software firm first - Massively data and tech driven, ML/AI is integrated into all of their trading strategies

Significant investment in infrastructure to support large-scale software growth

Massive on collaboration - encourage cross team interactions, flat structure with access to the founder and C level individuals

Free daily lunch and snacks

Requirements:

7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience with solid project execution examples

Deep expertise in routing (OSPF, BGP, EVPN) and switching (preferably VxLAN/VLAN)

Experience in multi-tenanted environments

Preference for Arista; Cisco also considered

CCIE or CCNP certified

Cloud networking experience (ideally AWS or GCP)

Monitoring/Orchestration tooling experience (LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, Prometheus, CVP, Elastic, Grafana)

Scripting/Network automation experience

Network diagnostic/performance tooling experience (netcat, tcptrace, wireshark, etc)

Understanding of network security concepts: AAA (Radius/TACACS), device hardening, control plane protection

Exposure to fast-paced industries — ideally trading, finance, or high-performance tech