DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

DRW-NX is looking for a talented Network Infrastructure Architect to join our NSO team (Network Services and Operations). You will play a critical role in building, automating, and ensuring the reliability of some of the most cutting-edge low latency infrastructure in the world.

You will:

• Have the opportunity to work on the fastest network in the world.
• Experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Be part of a driven and dynamic global team focused on designing, improving, managing and monitoring a cutting-edge global network.

As a Network Infrastructure Architect for DRW, you will have two main mandates:

1. Supporting our global infrastructure with a focus on low latency including:

• • Providing operational support for our global wireless and wired high-performance network environments
  • Diagnose and solve network related issues and outages
  • Proactively identifying enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
  • Operating and provisioning monitoring and telemetry systems where applicable
  • Contributing to the documentation of network processes, systems and configurations
  • Participate in network change and code reviews

1. Work on team and department projects such as:

• • Automate our network provisioning and operation
  • New network, colocation or path onboarding
  • New telecom link delivery
  • New monitoring solutions
  • New automation projects
  • Liaise with our internal project team and external service providers for maintenance support
  • Automate repetitive tasks and day to day network processes using scripting and automation

What you’ll bring to the team:

• At least Three to Five years of experience in network automation
• Able to write code and implementation automation using existing framework such as ansible
• Will to learn wireless technologies and low latency networking
• Knowledge of switching, routing, WAN, LAN, and datacenter network architectures
• Good understanding of Linux (Boot sequence, services, processes, network and kernel)
• Ability to deploy and operate a monitoring framework such as Cacti, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus or Tick stack
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
• Ability to work independently and be part of a global team
• A high level of energy and a passion for creativity and innovation
• The flexibility to participate in the rotating weekend maintenance schedule
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

Bonus points for:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer science, Software Engineering or similar
• CCNP or JNCIP certification (R&S or similar)
• Experience working on automation (Python, Ansible/Puppet/Salt etc.)
• Experienced in Python, Go or similar coding language
• Experience with point-to-point wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
• Experience working on low latency or trading networks
• Hands on experience working with containers or pods (docker or Kubernetes or similar)
• Hands on experience with cloud services (AWS)
• Firewall experience (Checkpoint, FortiGate, Palo Alto etc.)

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DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. 

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital, and crypto assets. 

We operate with respect, curiosity, and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus. 

 Objectives of this role:  

• Be a force for automation within the low latency network team at DRW 

• Bring Devops best practices to the Low latency network team 

• Automate software release processes for software and new hardware 

• Build CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, manage infrastructure as code, and optimize network engineering workflows 

• Become the SME for our virtualized and containerized/cloud deployments 

• Own the single source of truth and its network data models 

• Design, prototype and bring to production any framework required to achieve your mandate 

 Day to Day responsibilities:  

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for network configurations and changes (repo, test, validate, deploy). 

• Collaborate with Network Engineering team to standardize network designs, device catalogs, and topology models (e.g., NetBox, IPAM). 

• Develop automation for day-to-day network tasks (device onboarding, upgrades, backups, policy enforcement) and self-service capabilities for internal teams. 

• Advocate and work with the operations team on best practices around automation 

• Support all of our VM, cloud and bare metal deployments 

• Own our automation backlog to identify and automate repetitive tasks 

• Ensure security and compliance in automation pipelines (RBAC, secrets management, least privilege, audit logging, change control). 

• Create automated tests, dry-runs, and validation steps to prevent unintended changes (linting, pre-change checks, anomaly detection). 

• Maintain runbooks, standard operating procedures, and documentation for network automation and procedures. 

• Participate in an on-call rotation 

• Support scheduled after-hours maintenance 

  Required skills and qualifications 

• At least 5 years of experience working as a DevOps, NetDevOps or as a site reliability engineer  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Networking, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Devops certified with at least one of the following providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, DCA, CKA, Red Hat, LFCS or Cisco Devnet 

• Proficiency in Python (or another scripting language) for automation and tooling. 

• Strong Linux system administration skills 

• Proficiency with git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI 

• Strong experience in configuration management/automation (Ansible or similar) or Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)  

• Experience with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures. 

• Experience with Virtualization / Hypervisors: Proxmox , VMware 

• Experience with containerization tools such as Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift 

• Experience with monitoring and logging tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, ELK/Elastic, Splunk) 

• Solid understanding of network fundamentals (BGP, VLANs/VXLANs, VRF, ACLs, QoS) and device ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet, etc.) 

For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.

California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.

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DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

DRW NX is looking for a talented Network Infrastructure Architect to join our NSO team (Network Services and Operations). You will play a critical role in building, automating and ensuring the reliability of some of the most cutting-edge low latency infrastructure in the world.

You will:

• Have the opportunity to work on the fastest network in the world.
• Experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Be part of a driven and dynamic global team, focused on designing, improving, managing and monitoring a cutting-edge global network.

As a Network Infrastructure Architect for DRW, here are some of the things you will focus on:

• Design, configure and support our global infrastructure including proprietary hardware platforms with a focus on low latency
• Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
• Provide operational support for our global wireless and wired high-performance network environments
• Use proprietary and industry standard monitoring and analysis tools to identify, diagnose and solve network related issues throughout our global infrastructure
• Contribute to the documentation of network processes, systems and configurations
• Design and deploy new monitoring and telemetry systems where applicable
• Participate in network change and code reviews
• Interact with software and infrastructure teams to design, maintain and improve our internal tool stack
• Automate repetitive tasks and day to day network processes

For more information about DRW's processing activities and our use of job applicants' data, please view our Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.

California residents, please review the California Privacy Notice for information about certain legal rights at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.

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