Low Latency Network Engineer

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 platform

Optimise the performance, latency and throughput of the infrastructure

Lifecycle management and monitoring of Colo Network environment

Developing automation and operators to build and extend the infrastructure

Working with other platform and development teams to help define standards, best practices and onboard new capabilities onto the platform

Contributing to incident response and production reliability

On-call responsibilities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure

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 networks

Optimising 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 testing

Building networks and market connectivity in exchange collocations

Evaluating WAN connectivity options for optimal diversity and latency

Multicast configuration and troubleshooting

In-depth understanding of automation tools, including Git, Python, Jenkins and Ansible

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business ) and dedicated barista bar

35 days’ annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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