Network Engineering Team Lead
Role Overview
Senior network engineering leadership role for a global trading firm's Sydney APAC hub.
Own the strategy and performance of a latency-sensitive global network while building and leading its engineering team.
The role combines hands-on technical depth, leadership judgment and commercial awareness.
A full relocation package is available for the right candidate.
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About the Opportunity
Senior network engineering leadership role for a global trading firm's Sydney APAC hub.
Own the strategy and performance of a latency-sensitive global network while building and leading its engineering team.
The role combines hands-on technical depth, leadership judgment and commercial awareness.
A full relocation package is available for the right candidate.
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a team of senior network engineers and set a high technical bar.
- Own network strategy across global data centre, WAN and colocation environments.
- Set architecture and design standards while balancing consistency and performance demands.
- Work with trading and technology teams on infrastructure priorities and roadmap.
- Assess 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.
What You'll Bring
- Experience leading or technically guiding high-performing network engineering teams.
- Deep experience designing large-scale, low-latency networks in data centre and colocation environments.
- Strong knowledge of 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 that connects infrastructure choices to business and trading outcomes.
- Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Background
- Trading, HFT, market-making or similarly high-performance infrastructure background is preferred, but adjacent-industry candidates will be considered.
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