Senior Global Network Architect — Trading Infrastructure

Autonomai Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to own, evolve and scale the network infrastructure that underpins its trading business. This is a highly technical leadership role at the intersection of networking, infrastructure, trading and business strategy.

The successful candidate will shape performance, resilience and long-term direction of a latency-sensitive global network, while building a high-performing team of specialist network engineers.

Qualifications

• Technical leadership in networking and production systems.
• Experience with architecture decisions and complex operational problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of highly specialised network engineers with autonomy and ownership.
• Own the technical strategy and evolution of global network infrastructure across data-centre, WAN and colocation environments.
• Define architecture standards and design principles to improve scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability and simplicity.
• Drive convergence of architectures, tooling and practices across regions while allowing divergence for latency or business needs.
• Partner with trading and technology teams to translate priorities into network strategy and roadmap.
• Make informed trade-offs across latency, resilience, complexity, risk and engineering effort.
• Lead major network initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation and outcomes.
• Own capacity planning, connectivity strategy and evolution of network performance across global environment.
• Define and execute network infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning and CI/CD deployment.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil and accelerate incident response.
• Ensure the network is observable and resilient; lead during incidents and market events.
• Challenge existing architectures and identify simplifications to reduce risk.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and software teams to improve tooling and standards.
• Build relationships with exchanges, carriers, colocation providers, vendors and partners.
• Contribute to Infrastructure leadership and engineering culture.

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a senior Network Engineering leader to own, evolve and scale the network infrastructure that underpins its trading business. This is a highly technical leadership role at the intersection of networking, infrastructure, trading and business strategy.

The successful candidate will shape performance, resilience and long-term direction of a latency-sensitive global network, while building a high-performing team of specialist network engineers.