At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to optimise high-performance networks for global trading.
- Company: Join a leading global trading organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, performance bonuses, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborate with top-tier teams and make impactful architectural decisions.
- Why this job: Shape the future of trading infrastructure and tackle complex networking challenges.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in low-latency networks and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 $ per year.
We're working with a global trading organisation looking for a technical leader to drive the evolution of its high-performance network infrastructure across international markets.
This is a hands-on leadership opportunity combining advanced network architecture, performance engineering and team development.
You'll shape the infrastructure connecting trading systems, exchanges and global data centres, making critical decisions around latency and scalability.
- What You'll Be Working On
- Leading a team of specialist network engineers responsible for latency-sensitive trading infrastructure.
- Architecting high-performance networks across exchange colocations, data centres and global WAN environments.
- Optimising network latency, routing, switching, traffic flows and overall infrastructure performance.
- Designing resilient network topologies with a focus on redundancy, fault tolerance and operational simplicity.
- Driving network automation through Python, infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning and CI/CD.
- Building advanced telemetry, monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Leading network expansions, connectivity upgrades and complex infrastructure deployments.
- Troubleshooting critical production issues and improving network reliability.
- Working directly with trading, Linux and software engineering teams to solve performance-critical challenges.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience engineering large-scale, low-latency or high-performance networks.
- Proven technical leadership experience, including mentoring and developing network engineers.
- Deep expertise in routing, switching, network architecture and performance optimisation.
- Strong understanding of data centre networking, WAN connectivity and colocation environments.
- Experience with multi-vendor networking platforms and complex production infrastructure.
- Strong network automation skills using Python, Ansible or similar technologies.
- Experience with network telemetry, packet analysis, observability and advanced troubleshooting.
- Ability to make architectural decisions balancing latency, reliability and scalability.
- Experience within HFT, electronic trading or other performance-critical environments is highly advantageous.
What Can You Expect?
- Lead the evolution of a global, ultra-low-latency trading network.
- Work on complex networking challenges where microseconds and reliability directly impact trading performance.
- Combine hands-on technical architecture with engineering leadership and strategic ownership.
- Collaborate with highly skilled infrastructure, trading and software engineering teams.
- Competitive compensation, performance-based bonus, excellent benefits and professional development opportunities.
Lead Network Engineer in Sydney employer: Elity Global
Elity Global offers a collaborative engineering culture that emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and professional growth. Employees have the opportunity to work on high-performance distributed systems and contribute to critical infrastructure for electronic trading platforms. The company fosters a dynamic environment where innovative problem-solving is encouraged, making it an attractive place for skilled engineers.
