Network Automation Engineer, Security

2 Hours ago • 10 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Network Automation Engineer will assist the Network Security team in operating, scaling, and improving network security infrastructure through hands-on operations, testing, and automation. The daily work involves identifying opportunities for toil reduction, improving network security processes, formulating automation and monitoring requirements, interfacing with app owners and traders, contributing to in-house configuration and policy management tooling, evaluating and lab testing new platforms, setting priorities and timelines, and implementing and supporting software solutions. A holistic approach to system design is crucial, prioritizing flexibility, compatibility, and efficiency.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of engineering experience
  • Strong knowledge of TCP/IP stack
  • Experienced with routing technologies like BGP, OSPF, PIM-SM
  • Experienced with troubleshooting transport protocols (TCP/UDP)
  • Experienced working with Unix-based systems
  • Proficient in a programming language
  • Understand Public Key Infrastructure and related technologies
  • Understand modern encryption techniques
  • High capacity to learn
  • Clear communicator with excellent customer service
  • Flexible and reliable team player
  • Focused on team's roadmap and objectives

Job Details

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced Network Automation Engineer to help our Network Security team run, scale, and continuously improve our network security infrastructure through hands-on operations, testing, and automation. You should have advanced programming skills, strong networking fundamentals, and experience with security appliances like firewalls and proxy. 

Jane Street’s numerous distributed systems are built on an agile, reliable, multi-vendor network infrastructure that supports all traffic profiles, from trading to internet connectivity. Supporting such a large multi-function network requires advanced tooling for monitoring and automation. Your daily work will include: 

  • Proactively identifying toil reduction opportunities
  • Introducing improvements to network security processes
  • Formulating automation and monitoring requirements
  • Interfacing with app owners and traders to enable business workflows in secure ways
  • Contributing to in-house configuration and policy management tooling
  • Evaluating and lab testing new platforms for our network security infrastructure
  • Setting clear priorities and timelines for DevOps projects
  • Implementing, documenting, and supporting software solutions

Having a holistic approach to system design is critical. Our team’s solutions prioritize flexibility, compatibility, and efficiency, all while seeking ongoing buy-in and feedback from people across the firm to ensure we are supporting their daily work and keeping our systems operating at the highest standard.

Jane Street’s culture prizes intellectual humility, openness, and continuous improvement, which translate directly to the work of this team. We’re all partners working toward shared goals—and we’re always looking for the next great idea that will make our work stronger.

About You

  • 10+ years of experience in an engineering environment
  • Have strong knowledge of TCP/IP stack
  • Experienced with routing technologies such as BGP, OSPF, PIM-SM
  • Experienced with troubleshooting transport protocols (TCP/UDP)
  • Experienced working with Unix-based systems
  • Proficient in a programming language
  • Understand Public Key Infrastructure and related technologies
  • Understand modern encryption techniques
  • Have a high capacity to learn; we are interested in how you think, not just what you know
  • Able to context-switch while still prioritizing and organizing your stack 
  • Clear communicator who can maintain a high degree of customer service
  • A flexible and reliable team player who enjoys working in a collaborative environment
  • Can stay focused on the team’s roadmap and objectives in the long term

 

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

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About The Company

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.



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