Infrastructure Lead

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadingnation is seeking a senior leader to own and shape the global data centre and colocation strategy, ensuring scalable, low-latency infrastructure for trading workflows. You will oversee expansions, new site deployments, and multi-vendor collaborations with trading, networking and engineering teams to deliver resilient, high-performance infrastructure.

The role demands 10+ years in data centres or trading tech, strong vendor partnerships, and Mandarin plus English communication skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across data centres, colocation, telecommunications, network infra, or trading tech.
• Proven track record leading data centre expansions or large-scale infra programmes.
• Strong understanding of exchange colocation environments and low-latency infra.
• Experience evaluating data centre facilities, carriers and service providers.
• Solid knowledge of data centre operations: power, cooling, racks, cabling, capacity planning.
• Vendor management, commercial negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing infra budgets, timelines and multi-vendor projects.
• Good understanding of network connectivity, private circuits, and exchange connectivity.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on project execution.
• Fluent Mandarin and English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the firm's global data centre and colocation strategy across key trading locations.
• Lead colocation expansions, new site deployments, and infrastructure rollouts.
• Evaluate and onboard data centre providers, exchanges, carriers, and infra partners.
• Manage exchange connectivity, cross-connects, private circuits, and low-latency network infra.
• Oversee capacity planning, hardware lifecycle management, and infra optimisation.
• Deliver major infrastructure projects including exchange migrations, facility upgrades, and new market launches.
• Build strong relationships with vendors, carriers, and colocation providers.
• Partner with trading, networking, and engineering teams to support business growth and resilience.
• Ensure infra meets performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Act as the senior escalation point for strategic infrastructure initiatives.

Skills

Data centre strategy

Colocation deployments

Low-latency trading infra

Vendor management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Networking knowledge

English & Mandarin

Job description

This is a senior leadership role responsible for data centre expansion, colocation strategy, exchange connectivity, infrastructure deployment, network capacity planning and operational resilience. The successful candidate will work closely with trading, networking and engineering teams to ensure the firm's infrastructure footprint can support future business growth and increasingly demanding trading requirements

Responsibilities

• Own the firm's global data centre and colocation strategy across key trading locations.
• Lead colocation expansions, new site deployments, and infrastructure rollouts.
• Evaluate and onboard data centre providers, exchanges, carriers, and infrastructure partners.
• Manage exchange connectivity, cross-connects, private circuits, and low-latency network infrastructure.
• Oversee capacity planning, hardware lifecycle management, and infrastructure optimisation.
• Deliver major infrastructure projects including exchange migrations, facility upgrades, and new market launches.
• Build strong relationships with vendors, carriers, and colocation providers.
• Partner with trading, networking, and engineering teams to support business growth and operational resilience.
• Ensure infrastructure meets requirements for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Act as the senior escalation point for strategic infrastructure initiatives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across data centres, colocation, telecommunications, network infrastructure, or trading technology.
• Proven track record leading data centre expansions, colocation deployments, or large-scale infrastructure programmes.
• Strong understanding of exchange colocation environments and low-latency trading infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating data centre facilities, carriers, and service providers.
• Solid knowledge of data centre operations including power, cooling, rack design, cabling, and capacity planning.
• Strong vendor management, commercial negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing infrastructure budgets, timelines, and multi-vendor projects.
• Good understanding of network connectivity, private circuits, carrier diversity, and exchange connectivity.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on project execution.
• Fluent Mandarin and English communication skills.