Senior Network Engineer; CHI

Maven is a market‑leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market‑making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers and technologists, united by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate.

The Maven Infrastructure team is a set of broad‑minded technologists with diverse backgrounds who focus on continuously improving the end‑to‑end performance, resiliency, scalability, visibility and supportability of Maven’s computing systems.

As a Network Engineer within our Infrastructure team you will build a deep understanding of the data flows of Maven’s trading systems, build network infrastructure and work collaboratively to optimize the performance of those systems. Your primary focus will be working with developers, traders and other infrastructure engineers to optimise our US network and data‑centre infrastructure, but you’ll work closely with our global team of engineers to ensure we have a strong global network.

• Design, configure and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across teams to optimise for low‑latency trading applications.
• Build, support and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high‑performance network environment.
• Take an automated, data‑driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro‑bursting, jitter and queuing.
• Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance.
• Own and project‑manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation.
• Contribute to the documentation of network processes, systems and configurations.
• Collaborate with systems teams to build and manage datacenter infrastructure.
• Maintain network security infrastructure to ensure perimeter protection and that internal environments remain appropriately separated.

• Previous experience working on complex, high‑performance networks at a global scale.
• Demonstrable experience implementing complex projects from initiation through production handover.
• Experience with point‑to‑point low‑latency wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles.
• Passionate about troubleshooting and getting to the root cause of incidents.
• Experience with net‑ops tools for configuration management and network monitoring and analysis.
• Experience with Cisco, Arista and/or Juniper hardware and the associated network operating systems.
• Experience working with high‑performance networking fabrics or matrix switches.
• Experience with optical tap and packet capture infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of multicast networking and configuration.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux.
• Python scripting skills to automate tasks and perform analysis.
• CCIE level knowledge and experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience collaborating in global teams.

• Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly ambitious trading firm.
• A decentralised global engineering environment.
• Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
• Fast‑growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact.

Maven is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our employees. It is crucial for us to understand the demographics of our candidate pool to measure our recruitment practices. There is no requirement for any candidate to answer our demographic questions. For candidates who complete the questionnaire, their data will be anonymised and used only in the aggregate to inform our attraction strategy.

Maven is an equal opportunity employer and this data will be used for opportunity monitoring purposes.