Senior Network Engineering Lead - Low Latency APAC

Autonomai Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a Senior Network Engineering Lead for Sydney, APAC. You will own the latency-sensitive network strategy and build/lead a high-performing engineering team, while collaborating with trading and tech leaders to drive priorities.

This role requires deep architectural depth, hands-on multi-vendor experience and a track record in large-scale networks. A relocation package is available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• A track record leading or technically guiding high-performing network engineering teams.
• Deep experience designing large-scale, low-latency networks in data centre and colocation environments.
• Strong grounding in network architecture, resilience, redundancy and performance.
• Hands-on comfort with complex, multi-vendor production environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and network automation.
• Commercial awareness, able to connect infrastructure choices to business and trading outcomes.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of senior network engineers, setting a high technical bar.
• Own network strategy across data centre, WAN and colocation environments globally.
• Set architecture and design standards, balancing consistency with flexibility where performance demands it.
• Work closely with trading and technology teams to shape infrastructure priorities and roadmap.
• Weigh trade-offs between latency, resilience, risk and engineering effort.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, automation and CI/CD-driven deployment practices.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and high-impact market events.

Skills

Team leadership

Low-latency design

Data centre networks

Colocation networks

Network automation

Infrastructure as code

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a Senior Network Engineering Lead for Sydney, APAC. You will own the latency-sensitive network strategy and build/lead a high-performing engineering team, while collaborating with trading and tech leaders to drive priorities.

This role requires deep architectural depth, hands-on multi-vendor experience and a track record in large-scale networks. A relocation package is available for the right candidate.