Low Latency Infrastructure Lead

The company is seeking a Head of Low Latency Infrastructure to lead the design, deployment, and ongoing evolution of its trading infrastructure and low-latency technology environment. This individual will own the strategic direction of the platform while remaining highly hands-on, working closely with engineers, traders, and other technology teams to ensure the infrastructure is fast, resilient, scalable, and well automated.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical depth with leadership capability. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating across trading systems and core infrastructure, driving performance improvements, and building an environment where automation, reliability, and operational excellence are central.

• Lead the architecture, engineering, and ongoing optimisation of low-latency infrastructure supporting trading systems.
• Oversee both trading-facing and core infrastructure components, ensuring they are built for performance, resilience, and scale.
• Remain hands‑on in the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of critical systems.
• Develop and promote an automation‑first approach across deployment, monitoring, operations, and incident response.
• Work closely with trading, engineering, and operations teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Drive improvements in latency, throughput, reliability, and observability across the environment.
• Own technical standards, best practices, and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
• Mentor engineers and help build a high-performing technical team.

• Strong experience leading low-latency infrastructure or high‑performance technology teams.
• Deep understanding of trading systems, networked infrastructure, and production environments.
• Proven ability to stay hands‑on while operating in a leadership capacity.
• Strong automation mindset, with experience using scripting and tooling to remove manual work.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux-based systems and infrastructure engineering principles.
• Experience improving reliability, resilience, and operational efficiency in demanding environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with day‑to‑day technical execution.

• Experience in trading, financial services, or another latency‑sensitive environment.
• Exposure to network engineering, systems engineering, platform engineering, or SRE disciplines.
• Strong experience with automation, observability, deployment workflows, and operational tooling.
• A track record of building and improving infrastructure used in critical production environments.

• It offers the chance to shape the infrastructure behind a high-performance trading operation.
• The role combines leadership, architecture, and hands‑on engineering.
• Automation and performance engineering are central to the mandate.
• The environment values ownership, technical excellence, and practical problem-solving.

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