Senior Manager Network Engineering

Location: This person can sit out of Chicago, New York, or Kansas City | Hybrid (4 days onsite)

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

Day to Day:

We're seeking a hands-on Network Engineering leader to manage and mentor a team of engineers supporting one of the world's most demanding low-latency trading environments.

This role combines people leadership, technical strategy, and project execution. You'll oversee the design, performance, and evolution of a global network infrastructure that supports mission-critical financial systems where reliability, speed, and stability are essential.

If you've grown from Network Engineer into management and still enjoy getting into the technical details, we'd love to connect.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop a team of 6 Network Engineers across the Americas
• Drive network architecture, modernization, and strategic infrastructure projects
• Represent Network Engineering in cross-functional project meetings
• Partner with security, operations, cloud, and application teams
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for complex networking issues
• Support automation initiatives that improve scalability and operational efficiency
• Help define networking standards, best practices, and future technology direction

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of Network Engineering experience
• 3+ years leading engineering teams or technical staff
• Strong enterprise and data center networking background
• Deep expertise with:
• BGP
• OSPF
• MPLS
• VXLAN
• Multicast (PIM)
• WAN routing and switching
• Experience designing highly available, mission-critical environments
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• Hands-on network automation experience using Python and APIs
• Strong project leadership and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

• Experience in financial services, capital markets, trading, or high-frequency trading environments
• Experience with low-latency network design and optimization
• Knowledge of Arista, Cisco, and Juniper networking platforms
• Experience with:
• Ansible
• NetBox
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• CCIE or other advanced networking certifications