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title: 'Network Specialist - Reliability at Squarepoint Capital'
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# Network Specialist - Reliability at Squarepoint Capital

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Posted:** 2025-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=7068166&gh_jid=7068166

## Job description

Position Overview:

The role of the Network Reliability Specialist is to ensure the stability and integrity of all aspects that comprise the Squarepoint global trading network, which includes the regional data centers, regional offices, and various cloud service providers.  These aspects include and are not limited to the delivery and support of various projects involving data, voice, video, network security, storage area networks, wireless networks, network monitoring, and capacity management.

The Network Reliability Specialist will oversee and participate in the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization, and documentation of all network hardware, software, and communication links.  This includes managing multiple projects and configuring/optimizing network services both internally and those integrated with Internet based services.  Our network engineers collaborate and are closely aligned with our Core Networking team, trading systems developers, enabling the technology team to deliver an optimal trading platform.

- High Level Designs and implementing highly available enterprise networks that include DC’s, WANs, and Offices.
- Primary responsibility would be Project Delivery related to DC’s, WAN’s or offices
- Upgrades/Expansions in datacenter and campus environments, Migrations related to hardware, WAN links.
- Provision delivery of multicast inter and intra region between colo to colo, colo to DC, or DC to colo.
- Project Delivery/Management collaborating with internal and external vendors.
- Implement and support changes to the environment in all Squarepoint locations: offices, datacenters and co-location sites. Travel might be required.
- Provide L1 follow the sun on-call escalation support to remediate performance and availability issues.
- Identify areas for generating efficiencies adopting automation and innovative solutions for improvements.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Degree in Network engineering, Computer Science, or related Information Technology discipline
- CCNP certification or higher (CCIE preferred)
- Minimum 7-12 years of experience in network implementation and project delivery required, with a strong track record of successful project execution.
- Extensive knowledge of routing and switching protocols:
- Unicast: OSPF, BGP, NAT, IPSEC, GRE and EVPN
- Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP
- Switching: QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VPC/MLAG, VXLAN
- Experience with Cisco’s Unified Communication and Collaboration products and below technologies would be a plus:
- Voice: SIP, SCCP, H.323
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- Cisco Unity ConnectionCisco Expressway
- Cisco Jabber/WebEx Teams
- Video endpoints experience a plus
- Experience with voice recording platform a plus
- Strong scripting and automation experience – Python preferred
- Monitoring: LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, Prometheus
- Experience with Arista / Cisco
- Datacenter/office network infrastructure buildout experience
- Experience with network diagnostic and performance tools - tshark, tcpdump, wireshark, etc.
- Experience in the following areas a plus:
- Implementing and supporting cybersecurity solutions: Palo Alto, Fortinet, IDS, etc.
- Cloud-based solutions: AWS, GCP, Azure

The minimum base salary for this role is $120,000 if located in New York.  This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting.  This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation.  This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions.  Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors.

## About Squarepoint Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays)
- **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform.

## Products & Services
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data.
- **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles.
- **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets.
- **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house.
- **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style.
- **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies.
- **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity.
- **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility.

## Sources
1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/)
2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital)

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