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# Network Engineer

- **Company:** Aquatic Co.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Data Centers, Linux System Administration, Network Configuration and Change Management, Network Monitoring, Packet Analyzer, Ansible, TCP/IP, Git, Low Latency, Terraform
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/network-engineer-aquatic-capital-management-10417968

## About the Role

* Postgraduate study with a focus in networking is desired, but not required; equivalent practical experience is valued just as highly.
 * 6+ years of professional networking experience, with meaningful time in finance
 * FinTech or HFT networking experience, with a track record of building and maintaining complex financial and multicast networks.
 * CCNP/CCIE caliber depth. Certification is not required, but is a plus.
 * Deep understanding of TCP/IP.
 * Hands-on experience with PIM-SM, BGP, and VXLAN/EVPN.
 * Experience with Layer 1 switching.
 * Experience with network capture and monitoring tooling.
 * Experience with Arista EOS and Palo Alto or comparable firewall platforms.
 * Knowledge of different networking merchant silicon types and their tradeoffs.
 * Basic Linux systems administration.
 * Familiarity with basic IaC concepts and tools (git, Terraform, Ansible).

Candidate Qualities

 * Strong bias for action
 * Driven by accountability and internal urgency
 * A builder's instinct for automation and repeatable designs
 * Desire to independently seek best solutions
 * Preference for working in a team that focuses on delivering results aligned with Research and Trading goals
 * Comfortable providing and receiving actionable feedback in a collaborative team setting
 * Motivated by an ambitious environment and driven colleagues

## Description

* Ownership of Aquatic's networks across three domains: Research/HPC, Corporate/Office, and Production Trading.
 * Design, build, and maintain low-latency, multicast-heavy production trading networks, including market data distribution and exchange connectivity.
 * Build and scale the Research/HPC network that supports our GPU grid and high-performance storage clusters as they continue to expand.
 * Maintain and extend the corporate and office networks across Aquatic's offices, including new office buildouts.
 * Extend our network footprint into new regions as we enter new markets, with consistent, repeatable designs as the default rather than one-off builds.
 * Own network monitoring and packet capture so the firm can see what is happening on the wire, what changed, and what broke.
 * Move network configuration and change management toward infrastructure-as-code: version controlled, reviewed, and repeatable.
 * Support basic datacenter operations when needed (roughly 5-10% of time), including rack and stack and cross-connect troubleshooting, in partnership with our Datacenter Engineers.