Morgan Stanley
Lead Low Latency Network Operations and Analytics - Vice President
$155K–$215K
New York, New York · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of experience (listed under Preferred Qualifications).
About the job
Deploys, operates, and optimizes ultra-low-latency network infrastructure for high-frequency trading and market-data platforms.
What you'll do
- Engineer and support market-data connectivity, multicast distribution, routing, and resilient trading-network architectures.
- Analyze packet captures and network performance, investigate production incidents, and lead troubleshooting across infrastructure and application layers.
- Integrate FPGA and hardware acceleration, and automate network provisioning, monitoring, and validation.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in market-data connectivity, multicast (PIM, IGMP), TCP/IP internals, and low-latency networking.
- Hands-on experience with Cisco and Arista platforms, data center and co-location networks, and FPGA-based or hardware-accelerated networking.
- Packet capture and traffic-analysis expertise; experience with Corvil/cPacket or similar observability platforms.
- Programming or scripting for automation; strong understanding of FIX, market-data protocols, and real-time systems architecture.
Nice to have
- Python for automation.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, including packet-level troubleshooting and stakeholder collaboration.
Pay
$155,000 and $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
BGP, OSPF, RIP, PIM, IGMP, TCP/IP, Cisco, Arista
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