Head of Infrastructure

ECLARO; Huntersville (NC); On-site; USD 250,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Eclaro is seeking a Head of Infrastructure in Huntersville, NC to lead the firm's infrastructure and cybersecurity operations across data centers and remote environments. You will drive architecture, reliability, and security while shaping DR plans and incident response.

You will manage a five-person team, own budgets and vendor relationships, and ensure scalable, compliant trading infrastructure for a global client base.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure leadership roles.
• Infrastructure exposure in broker-dealer/trading environments.
• Experience with low-latency trading, exchange connectivity, market data networks.
• Deep knowledge of Windows/Linux, networking, security, and storage.
• Cybersecurity expertise: IDS/IPS, monitoring, vulnerability mgmt, incident containment.
• Ownership of disaster recovery, business continuity, and DR testing.
• Experience with SDLC security, automated release pipelines, and production rollback.
• Ability to manage budgets and coordinate vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure and cybersecurity operations across data centers and remote users.
• Manage a five-person team and hire as needed.
• Own infrastructure architecture, production reliability, security, and DR.
• Oversee incident response, vendor management, and budgeting.
• Coordinate testing with exchanges, providers, and business owners.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Low-latency trading infra

Networking & security

Disaster recovery

Vendor & budget management

Cloud & hybrid environments

SDLC security

Automation & config mgmt

Monitoring & on-call

Leadership & people management

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365

Job description

Job Number: 26-01776

Head of Infrastructure

Huntersville, NC

Our client is a fintech innovator transforming global trading by making U.S. equities accessible beyond traditional market hours. Through innovative technology and a global-first approach, they’re connecting investors worldwide and shaping the future of financial markets.

Position Overview

• Lead the firm's infrastructure and cybersecurity operations across Equinix data centers and remote user environments.
• Manage a five-person team, with authority to hire additional resources as needed.
• Own infrastructure architecture, production reliability, security, disaster recovery, and technical incident response, with responsibility for vendors and budgets.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Relevant Experience
• Infrastructure experience within a broker-dealer, ATS, exchange, or comparable trading environment, including leadership responsibility and strong hands-on technical expertise.
• Experience supporting low-latency trading infrastructure, exchange connectivity, market data networks, and redundant production environments.
• Deep knowledge of networking, firewalls, network segmentation, Windows and Linux servers, storage, virtualization, identity management, and endpoint security.
• Proven cybersecurity experience covering intrusion detection and prevention, security monitoring, vulnerability management, privileged access, and incident containment and recovery.
• Demonstrated ownership of disaster recovery builds and infrastructure supporting business continuity plans, including alternate sites, critical dependencies, recovery runbooks, and defined recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Experience leading end-to-end BCP and DR exercises, including production failover and failback, backup restoration, cyber recovery, and validation of trading and business operations with business owners.
• Experience coordinating street-wide testing with exchanges, clearing firms, connectivity providers, and trading counterparties; documenting results and closing identified gaps.
• Experience supporting a disciplined software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure development and deployment environments, source control, automated release pipelines, testing, approvals, segregation of duties, and production rollback procedures.
• Expertise in infrastructure automation, configuration management, performance tuning, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization.
• Strong production discipline covering monitoring, on-call support, change controls, patching, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Ability to lead staff and service providers, manage budgets, and communicate operational, security, and recovery risks to senior management.
• Relevant infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, or business continuity certifications, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ Years of Relevant Experience
• Modernizing infrastructure while maintaining uninterrupted trading operations.
• Developing a growing infrastructure team and reducing reliance on individual staff or vendors.
• Managing cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, alongside Microsoft 365 and corporate technology services.
• Working within an organization subject to SOC 2 examinations, a Regulation SCI entity, or another highly regulated securities industry environment.
• Managing data centers, colocation facilities, telecommunications providers, and critical technology dependencies.

Salary

$250000.00-$275000.00/Year

Equal Opportunity Employer

Eclaro values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.