About the role
What will you do at Goldman Sachs?
What We Do
Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) team provides tailored infrastructure
solutions for the firm's global markets businesses; we engineer and operate low
latency trading
environments globally. We leverage modern infrastructure, automation, and observability
to optimize performance and manage risk on behalf of our clients. The team's
areas of
responsibility encompass server hardware, Linux, networking, configuration management
and packet capture analytics. The team directly interfaces with senior business
stakeholders and external clients of the firm.
How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
* Architect and deliver high-performance, large-scale distributed trading networks,
setting technical direction and driving adoption of automation at scale.
* Own senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks, technology leadership, and
external clients — translating business requirements into robust network
solutions and driving commercial outcomes.
* Lead incident response and operational excellence for mission-critical
network
infrastructure, establishing best practices for change management, capacity planning,
and risk mitigation.
* Drive strategic initiatives including network architecture evolution, vendor
and
technology evaluation, and cross-regional standardization across global data center
and exchange connectivity footprints.
* Use AI-assisted tools to support network automation, configuration management, and
observability workflows.
* Expand beyond your domain. We have broad engineering remits, affording
opportunities to explore innovative hardware, software, and emerging tooling.
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
* CCNP or equivalent accreditation with deep expertise in end-to-end infrastructure
delivery, including BGP, multicast routing, switching, and network design at scale.
* Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from
design through production delivery.
* Strong communication and analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to
influence at senior levels.
Preferred Qualifications
* 7+ years supporting mission-critical, latency-sensitive production environments.
* Extensive experience with colocation connectivity, cross-connect
provisioning,
carrier diversity, and exchange/venue connectivity models across multiple regions.
* Proven track record with production change management practices and strong
knowledge of SDLC.
* Advanced scripting (bash/python) and configuration management (Ansible, Salt)
experience building tooling and driving automation with an Infrastructure-as-Code
mindset.
* Familiarity with AI-assisted development and automation tools.
* Experience with open source monitoring and metrics collection (Nagios, TICK,
Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) with the ability to define and drive observability strategy.
* Comfortable operating in and optimising Linux-based environments.
* Production operations: leading incident response, triaging and troubleshooting
complex, multi-layered network issues with a focus on root cause elimination.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills as the role interfaces directly with
senior stakeholders, external clients, and internal technology stakeholders
across regions.
* Securities/trading domain exposure a plus.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based
position is $150,000-$300,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a
discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive
benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong
overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally
available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who
work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here
[https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/discover/2022-Benefits-Summary-US.pdf].
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients,
shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a
leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm.
Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to
fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond
by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to
grow professionally and personally, from our training and development
opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance
offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and
people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special
needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:
https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
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