Network Engineer III in City of London

About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm focused on collaboration, cutting‑edge technology, data‑driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market‑maker, offering competitive quotes through our own low‑latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.

We design and implement the infrastructure that powers our global trading operations, operating offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

What you’ll do as a Network Engineer at Akuna:

• Collaborate with Trading, IT Infrastructure, and Development teams to configure and troubleshoot the network infrastructure.
• Provide day‑to‑day support of network and application environments, including port configuration and cabling.
• Support evenings and weekends, and travel to data centers as required.
• Work closely with other infrastructure engineers to evaluate current and new technology and improve all aspects of our infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and manage an effective WAN/LAN network that supports our domestic and global trading platform.
• Partner with network providers to keep the trading infrastructure stable, competitive, and cost‑effective.
• Document processes and focus on automation of day‑to‑day operations.
• React quickly to rapidly changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems as essential functions of the role.

Qualities that make great candidates:

• 3–5 years of professional experience in IP networking, ideally in low‑latency environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Design, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, OSI stack, and routing protocols (BGP, OSPF).
• Experience with Juniper, Arista or Cisco, including switching, firewalls, STP, VLANs, VPNs, trunks, ACLs, multicast routing (IGMP, PIM BiDir) and MSDP.
• Familiarity with multiple vendors.
• Experience performing network traffic and protocol analysis using Wireshark, tcpdump.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python.
• Active CCNP certification required, with a desire to achieve CCIE certification highly encouraged.

In addition to technical skillsets, Akuna values the unique perspectives people bring to collaboratively solve complex problems and drive Akuna forward. We welcome your application and encourage you to take the first steps toward your future with us!