# Low Latency Network Engineer

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Low Latency Network Engineer to join our team at Equity IT, supporting Millennium, a global alternative investment firm.

The successful candidate will engineer low-latency network solutions for trading, market data, and colocation environments, balancing project delivery with operational support.

Responsibilities:

- Own global network projects from requirements gathering and design through cost analysis, implementation, and deployment

- Lead research and evaluation of new network technologies, including RF, low-latency transport, routing, switching, and compute technologies

- Configure, install, maintain, and support critical network hardware and software

- Research, evaluate costs for, and implement data circuits to meet connectivity requirements

- Design and implement highly available, low-latency market data networks

- Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot network infrastructure, providing hands-on technical ownership and responsive user support

- Maintain infrastructure documentation, policies, and procedures, and participate in after-hours work and an on-call rotation

Requirements:

- At least seven years of experience in network engineering, operations, and support, with demonstrated hands-on technical ownership in a global organization

- Expert knowledge of low-latency networking, including multicast protocols such as IGMP and PIM, Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, WAN design, BGP, and OSPF

- Experience with Arista and Cisco technologies, including Layer 1 switches; knowledge of FPGA and high-performance computing technologies is a plus

- Strong understanding of time synchronization technologies, including Precision Time Protocol, White Rabbit, and PPS, and their role in low-latency environments

- Expert IP networking and TCP/IP troubleshooting skills, strong Linux shell experience, and proficiency with Python, Bash, and automation tools such as Ansible

- Experience applying AI/ML tools to network performance optimization, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics, with an understanding of frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn

- Experience using telemetry and observability frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana for real-time network monitoring and troubleshooting

- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver responsive, high-quality service to internal customers in a fast-paced environment

## Skills

### Required
- low-latency networking
- multicast protocols
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking
- WAN design
- BGP
- OSPF
- Arista and Cisco technologies
- time synchronization technologies
- IP networking
- TCP/IP troubleshooting
- Linux shell
- Python
- Bash
- automation tools
- AI/ML tools
- network performance optimization
- anomaly detection
- predictive analytics
- telemetry and observability frameworks

### Nice to have
- FPGA
- high-performance computing technologies
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Prometheus
- Grafana

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