Network Engineering Lead

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

As the engineering organization matures, the infrastructure teams are the key to Airwallex's ability to build a globally distributed platform, increase engineer productivity and ensure effective use of resources. Our team works to provide the best possible experience for our developers and customers while providing a safe and secure environment to ensure that our financial solutions are always available. 

What you’ll do

The networking team provides a reliable and secure cloud and hardware network infrastructure.

This role is based in Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and direction to a team of engineers based in Singapore. 

• Plan, build and ensure the network environment of the company's financial infrastructure.

• Cross connect IDC and public cloud networks to build a global high-performance network. 

• Formulate and implement cyber security strategies to meet compliance and audit requirements. 

• Deploy network monitoring systems to discover network faults. 

• Manage and secure hardware devices such as switches, routers, HSMs etc.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise-level network planning and management.

• Previous experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers. 

• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or networking related majors. 

• Familiar with the switching, routing and firewall configuration of mainstream equipment, proficient in BGP, IPSec, MPLS. 

• Familiar with public cloud network and interconnection configuration such as AWS and Google Cloud. 

• Familiar with at least one programming language (golang or python). 

• Strong ability to analyze and solve problems independently. 

Preferred qualifications:

• Have CCIE/JNCIE certificate. 

• Familiar with Equinix/Megaport. 

• Familiar with Terraform/Ansible/ArgoCD/Helm.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.