Network Automation Engineer
Network Automation Engineer
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13-06-2025
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13-06-2025
Job Description
The Role:
We are looking for a Network Automation Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in network engineering and be passionate about building automation solutions that support ultra-low latency trading platforms. Youll help us automate network provisioning monitoring and incident response in a dynamic and highly regulated capital markets environment.
Dash Financial Technologies is a leading technology provider for the capital markets delivering sophisticated trading technologies analytics and execution solutions. Our infrastructure supports mission-critical low-latency trading environments that demand precision scale and reliability. We are actively modernizing our networking stack with automation to ensure consistent performance and streamlined operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Automation Strategy & Development:
- Design build and maintain automation scripts and frameworks (primarily in Python and Ansible) to manage and scale network infrastructure.
- Automate device configurations network provisioning and operational workflows for routers switches firewalls and load balancers.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and auditable change management.
- Network Operations Support:
- Collaborate with network engineers to support day-to-day operations troubleshoot network incidents and apply automation to reduce manual intervention.
- Contribute to the stability and performance tuning of low-latency high-throughput networks that underpin trading infrastructure.
- Monitoring & Observability:
- Develop automated health checks alerts and dashboards using tools like Prometheus Grafana or custom Python utilities.
- Integrate observability into network automation solutions to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks quickly.
- Documentation & Collaboration:
- Maintain clear version-controlled documentation of automation processes and network topology.
- Work cross-functionally with DevOps Security and Trading Infrastructure teams.
- Compliance & Security:
- Ensure that all automation efforts comply with industry regulations and internal security standards especially those relevant to capital markets.
- Create audit-ready logs and reports to support regulatory and security reviews.
Required Skills Experience and Qualifications:
- 35 years of hands-on experience in network engineering with a focus on enterprise or financial trading environments.
- Proficiency in Python scripting and Ansible playbook development.
- Familiarity with network protocols such as BGP OSPF multicast and low-latency configurations.
- Experience with enterprise-grade networking hardware (Cisco Arista Juniper).
- Strong understanding of automation frameworks and version control (Git CI/CD pipelines).
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in capital markets or low-latency financial trading infrastructure.
- Exposure to SDN platforms and network APIs (e.g. NETCONF RESTCONF gNMI).
- Knowledge of compliance standards such as SEC/FINRA and security frameworks like ISO 27001.
- Familiarity with Linux systems and network performance analysis tools (e.g. tcpdump Wireshark).
About us:
Were a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software high-value analytics and strategic consulting to corporations central banks financial institutions and governments. Founded in 1999 weve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
Over 2000 of the worlds leading corporations including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the worlds central banks trust ION solutions to manage their cash in-house banking commodity supply chain trading and risk.
Over 800 of the worlds leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the worlds financial market infrastructure.
ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe
Our ever-expanding global footprint cutting edge products and over 40000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities abilities cultures and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
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