Network Engineer

About the role

A Career with Point72's Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.

As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and operate high-performance network platforms that support low-latency trading systems and critical business applications

- Design and deploy scalable campus, data center, and wide-area network architectures to meet growth and availability targets

- Implement and manage network security controls, firewall policies, and segmentation to protect sensitive systems and data, strengthening our defensive posture

- Automate network provisioning, configuration, and validation using scripting and infrastructure-as-code techniques to reduce manual work and accelerate deployments

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex network incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive post-incident improvements to increase reliability and reduce recurrence

- Partner with application, security, and operations teams to optimize network performance for latency-sensitive and high-throughput workloads

- Lead network upgrade, capacity planning, and vendor coordination projects from design through testing and cutover to deliver measurable improvements

- Maintain and improve network documentation, runbooks, and change control artifacts to ensure reproducible, auditable operations

- Mentor and coach engineers early in their careers, share knowledge across the team, and contribute to an environment of continuous improvement

WHAT'S REQUIRED

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

- 5+ years of hands-on network engineering experience in enterprise or financial services environments

- Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating data center and campus networks, with deep expertise in routing and switching and strong command of core protocols including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP, and EVPN/VXLAN, including hands-on experience designing VXLAN-based Layer 2/Layer 3 data center fabrics and underlay/overlay architectures