Posted:
12/28/2025, 11:25:25 AM
Location(s):
New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering
Why You Will Be Excited About This Role
This is a chance to work at the heart of a global trading and investing business, supporting the infrastructure that enables millions of market transactions every day. Your work will directly impact the stability, performance, and security of platforms relied on by traders and investors around the world.
You’ll join a role where your expertise truly matters. From designing and evolving enterprise-grade networks to resolving complex incidents in a live production environment, you’ll see the results of your work in real time. This is a role for someone who enjoys responsibility, ownership, and the satisfaction that comes from keeping critical systems running at their best.
Over the next 18 months, you’ll deepen your experience across data centre, cloud, SD-WAN, and security technologies, while working alongside highly capable engineers who value collaboration and shared problem solving. You’ll also strengthen your exposure to regulated, high-availability environments—experience that continues to be highly valued across financial services and technology sectors.
If you’re looking for a role that challenges you technically, recognises your contribution, and supports your ongoing professional growth, this opportunity offers a meaningful next step in your career.
Why You Will Like Working Here
Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:
Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
$0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!
What You Will Be Working On
In this role, you’ll design, build, and support LAN, WAN, and cloud network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
Your work will include:
Designing and implementing network solutions for new projects and BAU growth
Supporting and enhancing VPN connectivity with external partners
Managing and troubleshooting Palo Alto and Cisco ASA firewalls
Supporting Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching environments
Monitoring performance, capacity planning, and resolving complex network issues
Investigating and responding to network and security incidents
Identifying, advising on, and remediating network and security risks
Working closely with internal teams to resolve connectivity and production issues
This is a hands-on role where your decisions directly support trading platforms, client connectivity, and business continuity.
What Type Of Person Will Be Successful
You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy working in production environments, take pride in building resilient systems, and stay calm under pressure.
You’ll bring:
CCNP qualification (minimum)
Strong experience designing and supporting data centre and cloud networks
Hands-on experience with SD-WAN
Solid knowledge of Cisco switching (Catalyst, Nexus)
Clear documentation and communication skills
Experience in trading, financial services, market data feeds, multicast, Cisco ACI, Meraki Wireless, or Palo Alto firewalls will be highly regarded.
How To Apply
Finally, welcome their application. Encourage people to apply, and say that they will be considered for roles across the organisation.
We are growing the team and we would love to learn more about you. We’re always on the look out for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business also.
Please send us:
A copy of your resume
A brief cover letter that outlines why you are a good fit for the role
We look forward to hearing from you!
Website: https://cmcmarkets.com/
Headquarter Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Employee Count: 501-1000
Year Founded: 1989
IPO Status: Public
Industries: Bitcoin ⋅ Cryptocurrency ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Exchanges ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Foreign Exchange Trading ⋅ Internet ⋅ Mobile Apps ⋅ Software ⋅ Trading Platform