HPC Network Engineer
Hudson River Trading
- Chicago, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Network design, routing, configuration and troubleshooting
- Closely work with our HPC Systems and other teams to scale our research environment
- Project management - gathering requirements, tracking updates and providing detailed documentation in the form of diagrams, documents and spreadsheets
- Managing and maintaining IP address assignments and configurations
- Leveraging automation to optimize network efficiency
- Working with remote data center teams to solve challenging problems, such as hardware, cabling, optics and more
- Travel to global data centers to ensure project completion
- Performing firmware upgrades on switches and routers to maintain network security and performance
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related IT field or 5+ years of relevant experience
- Incredible attention to detail and excellent prioritization skills
- Self motivated, independent, eager to learn and apply new skills quickly
- Willingness and ability to solve small technical problems in the field yourself
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as needed
- You have excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to admit mistakes
- Textbook understanding and some practical experience with common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices such as OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP, spine-leaf architecture, and VXLAN
- Experience with various switch vendors and operating systems, including but not limited to Arista (EOS), Cisco (NX-OS), and SONiC-based switches
- Some experience in designing computing and grid networks, capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
- Familiarity with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark.
- Familiarity with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure
- Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable to support zero-touch network management
- Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable.
- Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards. Ability to understand specs of various fiber optic transceivers.
- Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
- Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms
- Able to create and maintain clear and effective technical documentation