Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering

BNY; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a senior Network professional to lead the design and delivery of resilient network solutions across the United Kingdom. This role involves collaborating closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Cisco technologies, strong project leadership skills, and a focus on automation. This role is vital for enhancing network connectivity and security. BNY values diversity and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• SME-level knowledge of network technologies such as Cisco ACI and SD-WAN.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco changes in DMZ.
• Experience with automation tooling and infrastructure-as-code approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex DMZ projects involving network routing and segmentation.
• Deliver routing changes for DMZ-hosted services.
• Support onboarding of new applications into the DMZ.

Skills

Cisco ACI

Cisco SD-WAN

BGP

Routing

VRFs

GRE

IPsec

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Cloud networking

Monitoring tools

Tools

Cisco devices

Jira

Orion

Splunk

Forward Networks

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a senior level Network professional to lead the design, delivery, and operation of secure, resilient network solutions across campus, branch, and data center environments. This role owns end‑to‑end solution delivery and works in close partnership with infrastructure, security, real estate, risk, and audit teams to drive operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex DMZ projects involving routing, remote access, onboarding, segmentation, migration, and perimeter connectivity activities. CCIE or demonstratable equivalent skill.
• Deliver routing, path, failover, and connectivity changes for DMZ‑hosted and externally connected services.
• Execute Cisco network changes supporting DMZ services.
• Provide SME support across data centre and perimeter connectivity technologies.
• Support onboarding of new applications and services into the DMZ.
• Drive automation opportunities across repetitive perimeter services and help define self‑service patterns for standard requests.
• Partner with stakeholders to simplify intake, standardize delivery, and improve operational scalability.

Qualifications

• SME‑level knowledge of Cisco ACI, Cisco SD‑WAN, BGP, routing, VRFs, GRE, IPsec and related connectivity technologies.
• Strong hands‑on experience designing and executing Cisco network changes in perimeter and DMZ environments.
• Experience with automation tooling, workflow orchestration, or infrastructure‑as‑code approaches. Use of Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• Experience with Cloud networking, Azure, AWS, Aviatrix, beneficial.
• Experience with F5 and proxies beneficial.
• Experience with Zscaler and GlobalProtect or other secure access use cases beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex network or perimeter delivery projects across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience identifying manual processes and converting them into automated or self‑service delivery patterns.
• Strong troubleshooting, change planning, implementation validation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within controlled change processes using Jira.
• Experience supporting segmentation, migration, and failover testing initiatives.
• Experience working in large enterprise network environments and associated monitoring tools, such as Orion, Splunk and Forward Networks.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.