Vice President, Network Engineering & Architecture - (System & Network Operations) - IT

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is seeking an experienced network infrastructure leader to co-lead the network function and oversee architecture, strategy, and governance for our mission-critical network infrastructure. You will work with the Vice President of Network Operations to drive performance, reliability, and advanced technical support for HKEX trading and market systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration with application development teams to understand communication

Qualifications

• University degree in IT, CS, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 15+ years in network infrastructure engineering, architecture and leadership.
• Experience with large-scale, highly available networks and mission-critical systems.
• Experience collaborating with application teams to optimize performance.
• Strong analytical and communication skills and leadership track record.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead the network function and set technology strategy with the VP responsible for Network Operations.
• Lead the Network Engineering team for design, upgrade, migration, and optimization of HKEX's network.
• Define and maintain network architecture standards, governance, roadmaps, and design principles.
• Drive strategic initiatives, transformation programmes and tech refresh projects.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand traffic patterns and latency requirements.
• Lead end-to-end performance engineering to identify latency bottlenecks and improvements.
• Provide Level 3 technical leadership and escalation for major incidents and RCAs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and improve resilience, security, and scalability.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Low-latency design

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Network security technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS / Engineering

Tools

ACI

VXLAN

EVPN

SD-WAN

Job description

Company Introduction

We’re home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets. Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day. HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary

An experienced network infrastructure leader responsible for co-leading HKEX's network function and overseeing network engineering, architecture, technology strategy, project delivery, and engineering governance for HKEX's mission-critical network infrastructure. Working in partnership with the Vice President responsible for Network Operations, the role will jointly contribute to the leadership, strategy, capability development, and overall performance of the network organization. While the Network Operations function focuses on service reliability, operational governance, automation, and day-to-day support, this role will provide leadership in network architecture, infrastructure transformation, project execution, performance engineering, and advanced technical support. A key responsibility of the role is to collaborate closely with application development teams to understand application communication patterns, protocol behaviour, and latency characteristics, ensuring network designs are optimized to meet the demanding performance requirements of HKEX's trading and market systems.

Job Duties

• Co-lead the network function and collaborate with the VP responsible for Network Operations to establish technology strategy, organizational priorities, and capability development plans for the network organization.
• Lead the Network Engineering team and provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, upgrade, migration, and optimization of HKEX's mission-critical network infrastructure.
• Define and maintain network architecture standards, engineering governance frameworks, technology roadmaps, and technical design principles to support future business and market requirements.
• Drive the delivery of strategic network initiatives, infrastructure transformation programmes, and technology refresh projects, ensuring successful execution within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Partner closely with application development teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders to understand application communication patterns, traffic flows, protocol behaviour, and latency-sensitive requirements, and ensure network solutions are optimized accordingly.
• Lead end-to-end performance engineering initiatives by analysing application, server, transport, and network interactions to identify latency bottlenecks and implement enhancements that improve system performance.
• Provide Level 3 technical leadership and act as the highest level of escalation for major incidents, complex problem investigations, root cause analysis activities, and critical production issues.
• Evaluate emerging network technologies and industry best practices, and develop strategies to improve network capability, resilience, security, scalability, and operational effectiveness across HKEX.

Requirements

• University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in network infrastructure engineering, architecture, project delivery, and technical leadership, with at least 5 years in a management or leadership role.
• Strong expertise in enterprise and data centre networking technologies, including ACI, VXLAN, EVPN, SD-WAN, multicast networking, network security technologies, and low-latency network design.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, upgrading, and migrating mission-critical network infrastructure within large-scale and highly available environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with application development teams to analyse application traffic characteristics, protocol behaviour, network interactions, and end-to-end performance requirements.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, packet analysis, multicast technologies, transport-layer behaviour, traffic engineering, and latency optimization techniques within distributed and performance-sensitive systems.
• Proven ability to identify and manage technical risks, cross-domain dependencies, architecture challenges, and implementation complexities associated with large-scale technology initiatives.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with a track record of building high-performing engineering teams, developing technical talent, and driving engineering excellence.

HKEX is committed as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values and we look to support, respect diverse perspectives, abilities, culture and experiences within our workplace.

Location: HKEX - TKO Shift: N/A Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Permanent

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code:388) and one of the world’s leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metals Exchange. As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets. HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all.

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