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Low Latency Network Engineer

G Research — United Kingdom · Posted ~4 hours ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

network engineering low-latency networking network architecture network automation network monitoring performance optimization high availability co-location networking

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A specialist Network Engineer is sought to design and build highly available, extremely low-latency infrastructure for a demanding co-location environment. You will optimize latency and throughput, manage the network lifecycle, develop automation and operational tooling, and improve observability and reliability. The role offers substantial technical ownership in a heavily automated infrastructure environment.

Highlights

Highly technical infrastructure role focused on low-latency, high-availability networking. Provides ownership of network design, automation, observability and performance optimization within a rapidly evolving co-location environment.

Description

The role G-Research is going through an exciting period of growth in our co-location and low-latency platform. As part of our transformation, we are looking for a highly skilled low latency network engineer to join our Colo Infrastructure team. You will design and build highly available network solutions for our low latency platform as well as the tooling and workflows to ensure the infrastructure is robust, observable and engineered for speed and availability. The infrastructure is highly automated and you will maintain and develop this automation to enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure whilst maintaining reliable operations. Key responsibilities of the role include: Designing and building new co-location network solutions to meet the needs of the platformOptimise the performance, latency and throughput of the infrastructureLifecycle management and monitoring of Colo Network environmentDeveloping automation and operators to build and extend the infrastructureWorking with other platform and development teams to help define standards, best practices and onboard new capabilities onto the platformContributing to incident response and production reliabilityOn-call responsibilities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure Who are we looking for? We’re looking for a skilled network engineer with technical experience of managing high performance, low latency, scalable and resilient network infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: Designing and building highly available, mission critical networksOptimising low latency networks (including layer 1 switching, RF, LEO, dark fibre), timing solutions (using GPS, PTP, PPS, White Rabbit and NTP)Building packet capture and analysis solutions (including optical taps, SPAN, tap aggregation and timestamping)Running product evaluation and testingBuilding networks and market connectivity in exchange collocationsEvaluating WAN connectivity options for optimal diversity and latencyMulticast configuration and troubleshootingIn-depth understanding of automation tools, including Git, Python, Jenkins and Ansible Why join us? Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonusLunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar30 days’ annual leave9% company pension contributionsInformal dress code and excellent work/life balanceComprehensive healthcare and life assuranceCycle-to-work schemeMonthly company events