Low Latency Network Engineer

As a Low Latency Network Engineer at G-Research in London, you will design and implement highly available co-location networks that power our low-latency platform. You’ll drive optimization of latency, throughput, and resilience while building automated infrastructure and observability. Collaborating with platform and development teams, you’ll contribute to incident response and production reliability. This role offers a meaningful chance to shape our critical research infrastructure and speed up discovery.

• Highly competitive compensation with annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Design and build co-location network solutions for the platform
• Optimize performance, latency and throughput of the infrastructure
• Lifecycle management and monitoring of the Colo Network environment
• Develop automation and operators to extend the infrastructure
• Collaborate with platform and development teams to define standards and onboard new capabilities
• Contribute to incident response and production reliability
• On-call responsibilities for critical parts of the infrastructure

• Designing and building highly available, mission critical networks
• Optimising low latency networks (layer 1 switching, RF, LEO, dark fibre) and timing solutions (GPS, PTP, PPS, White Rabbit, NTP)
• Building packet capture/analysis solutions (optical taps, SPAN, tap aggregation, timestamping)
• Running product evaluation and testing
• Building networks and market connectivity in exchange collocations
• Evaluating WAN connectivity options for diversity and latency
• Multicast configuration and troubleshooting
• Automation tools including Git, Python, Jenkins and Ansible

• Team collaboration
• On-call reliability
• Problem-solving
• Low-latency network design and optimization
• Co-location networking
• Layer 1 switching, RF, LEO, dark fibre