Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Ownership and Architecture

- Own the complete lifecycle of trading infrastructure including design, deployment, optimization, and operations
- Architect scalable, resilient, and deterministic infrastructure for latency-sensitive trading workloads
- Ensure high availability, performance consistency, and fault tolerance across environments

Network Engineering

- Design and manage ultra-low latency network architectures using L2 and L3 protocols
- Deep expertise in multicast, PTP, GPS clocking, time synchronization, and timestamping
- Manage exchange connectivity, market data feeds, cross-connects, and order entry paths
- Optimize switches, NICs, and network paths for microsecond and nanosecond-level performance

Data Centre and Colocation Management

- Own exchange colocation strategy across multiple markets and venues
- Manage rack design, cabling standards, power planning, cooling, and space utilization
- Coordinate installations, audits, and upgrades with exchanges and colocation providers
- Oversee dark fiber, metro links, and third-party connectivity providers

Linux and Systems Engineering

- Build and maintain high-performance Linux environments for trading and market data systems
- Perform kernel tuning, CPU isolation, NUMA optimization, IRQ tuning, and real-time performance enhancements
- Ensure OS level stability, security, and performance best practices

Hardware and Connectivity

- Own selection and validation of servers, NICs, switches, and low-latency hardware components
- Manage firmware, BIOS, and driver configurations for optimal performance




- Oversee hardware procurement, deployment, lifecycle management, and decommissioning
- Ensure optimal physical connectivity and cabling standards within data centres

Operations and Reliability

- Define monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks
- Lead root cause analysis for outages, latency spikes, or performance degradation
- Establish robust change management and operational best practices
- Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements

Leadership and Collaboration

- Lead, mentor, and scale a team of network, infrastructure, and systems engineers
- Partner closely with trading, quant, and development teams to meet performance objectives
- Drive long term infrastructure strategy aligned with trading and business growth
- Manage vendor relationships and negotiate with hardware, exchange, and service providers

Required Skills and Experience

- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure roles within HFT, prop trading, or latency-critical environments
- Deep hands-on expertise in low-latency networking and Linux performance tuning
- Strong experience with exchange colocation setups and market connectivity
- Proven leadership experience managing mission-critical infrastructure teams
- Exceptional troubleshooting and decision-making skills under pressure

Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience in a leading HFT or proprietary trading firm
- Exposure to FPGA-based trading or market data systems
- Experience with automation, scripting, or infrastructure as code
- Robust understanding of trading infrastructure security and compliance

📌 Lead Network Engineer (Gandhinagar)
🏢 Proprietary Trading Firm
📍 Gandhinagar