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Senior Network Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management · Hedge fund · Chicago · Senior · Posted 2026-07-07

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BAM is seeking an innovative, driven self-starter for a Network Engineer position. This technical role requires advanced engineering experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting a highly available global network infrastructure. The hire will work on a wide array of networking technologies and enable BAM to grow and scale into the future. The candidate will embody a mindset of continuous learning and process improvement. A basic understanding of financial markets and trade lifecycles is a plus.

As a Network Engineer at BAM, you will:

  • Design, implement, and maintain a multi-vendor global trading network
  • Connect BAM’s offices, datacenters, market data providers, trade brokers and public cloud providers.
  • Work with, and help extend, an intent driven network automation framework
  • Have access to the latest AI models and tools
  • Manage the firewall infrastructure and proactively work to improve network security.
  • Work closely with technology and investment teams to understand their requirements and provide solutions that align with business needs
  • Perform network capacity planning to ensure network scales to meet the demands of the business
  • Define and implement standards and best practices
  • Act as an escalation point for troubleshooting network and security issues
  • Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation and out of hours network maintenance

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:

  • An ambitious self-starter, hungry and driven to learn
  • Have a genuine interest in network engineering and network automation
  • Possess a strong desire to solve problems with automation and self-service
  • Able to multitask and excel in a high-pressure, fast-paced trading environment
  • Able to work well under minimal supervision to complete projects and tasks on time
  • Able to think independently to develop quick and sound solutions to complex problems
  • A strong and efficient communicator and collaborator

To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:

  • Expert knowledge of network protocols, including BGP, OSPF, PIM, and IGMP
  • Solid understanding of spine-leaf topologies and large scale data center network designs
  • Experience working with market data providers and colocation facilities.
  • Experience working with Palo Alto firewalls and network security in general.
  • Good understanding of networking in public cloud environments, particularly AWS and Azure
  • Experience working with network automation and automation tools: Netbox, Ansible, Jinja, Python, Git, Netconf, Restconf, Temporal, Terraform
  • The ability to troubleshoot complex network issues

Bonus Points for:

  • Experience with modern observability tools and protocols: Prometheus, Grafana, Telegraf, Cisco Telemetry, gNMI, YANG
  • Good understanding of Cisco Meraki solutions
  • Knowledge of enterprise voice including Cisco CUCM, Zoom Phone, WebEx Calling and Cloud9

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