Low-Latency Network Engineer — Colo & Automation

G-Research; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Lunch provided via Just Eat for Biz

35 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Healthcare

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Job summary

G-Research in London seeks a highly skilled low-latency network engineer to join the Colo Infrastructure team. You will design and deploy mission-critical networks, optimise latency and throughput, and automate infrastructure for rapid, reliable deployment.

You will also contribute to incident response and on-call coverage. You will collaborate with platform and development teams to define standards, apply timing solutions, and build advanced monitoring and automation using Git, Python, Jenkins

Qualifications

• Experience designing highly available, mission critical networks.
• Expertise in low latency networking including timing solutions (GPS, PTP, PPS, White Rabbit, NTP).
• Experience building monitoring, packet capture and analysis tools.
• Familiarity with WAN connectivity and market connectivity in exchange collocations.
• Strong automation skills using Git, Python, Jenkins and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• 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 define standards and onboard new capabilities.
• Contributing to incident response and production reliability.
• On-call responsibilities for the most critical parts of the infrastructure.

Skills

Low latency design

High availability

Network automation

Performance tuning

Colo networks

Packet capture

WAN connectivity

Automation tooling

Tools

Git

Python

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

G-Research in London seeks a highly skilled low-latency network engineer to join the Colo Infrastructure team. You will design and deploy mission-critical networks, optimise latency and throughput, and automate infrastructure for rapid, reliable deployment.

You will also contribute to incident response and on-call coverage. You will collaborate with platform and development teams to define standards, apply timing solutions, and build advanced monitoring and automation using Git, Python, Jenkins