Principal Infrastructure Engineer- Data Center Network

• Manages multiple technical areas and collaborates on technology projects across different technical domains

• Promotes and champions the development of technological methods techniques and various analytical approaches across the infrastructure engineering domain

• Ensures technical compliance risk and security is adopted and that service level agreements and solution scalability needs are met

• Engages multiple stakeholders and complex projects consisting of large teams

• Applies cross-functional technical expertise leadership and comprehensive business knowledge to a broad range of infrastructure engineering areas by communicating managing and implementing strategic and operational plans

• Develops and executes the functions objectives with accountability for outcomes

• Be responsible for staffing budget and relevant profit and loss

• Mentors and coaches junior engineers and technologists

• Champions the firms culture of diversity opportunity inclusion respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation

• Drive adoption of infrastructure automation SDN and network-as-code practices to improve agility and reduce manual risk.

• Oversee lifecycle management including hardware/software upgrades end-of-life tracking and technology refresh programs.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal Training or certification in Data Center Networking and 10 years applied experience in data center network engineering and operations with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

• Deep technical expertise in data center networking technologies: Cisco Arista Juniper Nexus ACI BGP EVPN VXLAN etc.

• Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g. Ansible Terraform Python CI/CD pipelines) for network infrastructure.

• Solid understanding of risk management compliance standards (e.g. SOX FFIEC MAS) and audit processes.

• Demonstrated success in leading stability and resiliency programs including change management incident response and RCA.

• Experience managing and developing large cross-functional teams within the infrastructure engineering discipline

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed complex organizations and delivering value at scale

• Experience leading complex projects supporting infrastructure engineering design scaling resilience and system performance assessments

• Extensive experience hiring developing and recognizing talent

• Experience managing and developing budgets

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Deliver and maintain highly stable and resilient network environments supporting mission-critical financial applications.

• Partner with cybersecurity application and cloud teams to ensure robust secure and scalable infrastructure designs.

• Develop and execute network roadmaps and engineering plans aligned with enterprise strategy.

• Lead and mentor a global team of network engineers and technical leads; develop talent and build succession plans.

• Manage vendor relationships contracts and performance tied to data center network services.