Network Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 CAD. · Full-time
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- Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 CAD.
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About CIX
CIX is Canada’s newest Alternative Trading System (ATS), created to bring innovation and fairness to Canadian markets. Our technology-driven approach emphasizes speed, reliability, and resilience in a regulated trading environment.
The Role
We are looking for a Network Specialist to design, implement, and maintain the network architecture underpinning CIX’s trading platform. This role focuses on low-latency networking, connectivity to brokers and vendors, and security controls, ensuring seamless market access and compliance.
The Network Specialist will collaborate with system administrators, operations, and external partners to provide a highly available and secure trading environment.
Key Responsibilities
Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 CAD. Please note that the salary range is a guideline only. The salary offered may vary based on the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
How to Apply
Send your resume and a short cover letter to careers@thecix.ca.
CIX is Canada’s newest Alternative Trading System (ATS), created to bring innovation and fairness to Canadian markets. Our technology-driven approach emphasizes speed, reliability, and resilience in a regulated trading environment.
The Role
We are looking for a Network Specialist to design, implement, and maintain the network architecture underpinning CIX’s trading platform. This role focuses on low-latency networking, connectivity to brokers and vendors, and security controls, ensuring seamless market access and compliance.
The Network Specialist will collaborate with system administrators, operations, and external partners to provide a highly available and secure trading environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and maintain firewalls, routers, and switches across colocation facilities and cloud environments.
- Manage secure connectivity for brokers and market participants (FIX sessions, VPNs, dedicated circuits, ACLs).
- Onboard network connectivity to and from third party connectivity providers (cross connects, LAN extensions, extranets).
- Monitor and optimize network performance to maintain low latency and stability.
- Implement and monitor DDoS protection, IDS/IPS, and other network security measures.
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues with brokers, telecom providers, and internal systems.
- Configure, update and maintain access control lists.
- Ensure redundancy and failover capabilities are tested and maintained.
- Provide Tier 2/3 network support during incidents and outages.
- Open to flexible work hours as needed based on extended hours trading.
- Other duties as assigned, supporting CIX technology and operational needs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, or related discipline.
- Prior experience as a network engineer, specialist or network administrator.
- Hands-on experience with network design and maintenance, firewalls, routing, switching, and VPN configuration.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, multicast, VLANs, QoS, and network monitoring tools.
- Experience with network security technologies and best practices.
- Ability to work in latency-sensitive or mission-critical environments.
- Experience with designing, building, managing unicast and multicast network traffic for market data distribution
- Cisco network certification
- Experience designing and building low-latency network connectivity working at an ATS, Exchange, vendor or a broker/dealer in an equities capital markets domain
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems administration and shell scripting.
- Familiarity with FIX protocol, trading connectivity, or financial exchange environments.
- Experience with scripting/automation (Bash, Python, Ansible).
- Working knowledge or prior experience with UDP Multicast and market data distribution
- Exposure to monitoring and logging systems used in hybrid infrastructure.
- Experience in network and information security best practices
- Be responsible for the backbone of Canada’s newest ATS.
- Gain experience in network management, financial markets and real-time trading systems.
- Collaborate with a lean, high-impact team.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.
Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 CAD. Please note that the salary range is a guideline only. The salary offered may vary based on the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
How to Apply
Send your resume and a short cover letter to careers@thecix.ca.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Design, configure, and maintain secure, resilient, low-latency network infrastructure across colocation facilities and cloud environments, including connectivity for brokers, vendors, and market participants. Monitor and optimize network performance, maintain security and redundancy controls, and provide Tier 2/3 support for connectivity incidents and outages.
Requirements
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, or a related discipline and prior experience in a network engineering, specialist, or administration role are requested. Candidates should have hands-on experience with network design, firewalls, routing, switching, VPNs, TCP/IP, multicast, network security, and latency-sensitive environments; Cisco certification and capital-markets connectivity experience are also noted.
Skills
- Network Design
- Firewall Configuration
- Routing
- Switching
- VPN Configuration
- TCP/IP
- Multicast Networking
- VLANs
- Quality of Service
- Network Monitoring
- Network Security
- Low-Latency Networking
- DDoS Protection
- IDS/IPS
- Linux/Unix Administration
- Network Automation
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation
- Benefits
- Growth Opportunities
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- Technology
- Engineering
- Finance & Accounting
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Alternative Trading System
- Capital Markets
- Equities
- Trading Platform
- Low-Latency Networking
- Network Architecture
- Firewalls
- Routers
- Switches
- TCP/IP
- UDP Multicast
- Market Data Distribution
- VLANs
- Quality of Service
- VPN
- FIX Protocol
- Access Control Lists
- DDoS Protection
- IDS/IPS
- Network Monitoring
- Colocation
- Cloud Environments
- Dedicated Circuits
- Cross Connects
- Cisco Certification
- Linux/Unix
- Bash
- Python
- Ansible
- High Availability