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At FNZ, our purpose is to make wealth management more accessible, bringing easier, fairer and more inclusive solutions to people worldwide. Here in the Global Network Architecture team, we design and evolve the platforms that support investment solutions for over 20 million people.

We are looking for an experienced Network Engineer, to have have an excellent command of network design principles and a demonstrated ability to architect scalable, secure, and resilient network solutions that exceed business needs. Your role in FNZ will be to act as a trusted advisor to business units and a technical leader in evaluating and implementing new networking technologies. You will be an extremely effective communicator to all audiences and highly motivated to deliver meaningful and high-value improvements.

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud network architecture standards, patterns, and processes across Azure, AWS, and GCP

• Lead cloud connectivity strategy including B2B private interconnects via Megaport Virtual Edge and Equinix Network Edge

• Collaborate with business units to ensure cloud network requirements are embedded in all new systems and applications

• Work alongside Cloud and Network Engineering teams to trial and deploy infrastructure and tooling that meets FNZ business needs

• Evaluate emerging cloud networking technologies and trends, and recommend appropriate strategies for adoption

• Align cloud network architecture with broader infrastructure, security, identity, and application strategies

• Support automation, observability, and telemetry integration across cloud platforms

• Ensure designs meet performance, scalability, and security requirements across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Experience required

• Extensive experience designing and deploying cloud network infrastructure across Azure (primary), AWS, and GCP

• Proven ability to lead cloud network transformation initiatives and build strong relationships across business and technical teams

• Strong experience gathering requirements and translating them into scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud network solutions

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and articulate technical concepts clearly

• Deep technical expertise in:

  • Azure Virtual WAN, Private Link, ExpressRoute, and Route Server

  • AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and VPC peering

  • GCP VPCs, Cloud Interconnect, and Shared VPC

  • BGP, OSPF, EVPN, and traffic engineering across hybrid environments

  • SD-WAN and SASE architectures

  • VXLAN overlays and NSX-T

  • FortiGate NGFWs and Fortinet SD-WAN

  • Fabric technologies such as Megaport MVEs and Equinix Fabric Edge

  • F5 Distributed Cloud and traditional ADC platforms (F5 LTM/GTM)

  • Network automation and orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines)

  • Observability and telemetry integration across cloud and hybrid platforms

  • Zero-trust network design and cloud-native security controls

Who are you?

• You are a strategic thinker and technical leader who thrives in complex, multi-cloud environments.

• You bring clarity to ambiguity and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions.

• You are collaborative, curious, and committed to continuous improvement.

• You understand the business impact of cloud network decisions and are passionate about building resilient, secure, and future-ready infrastructure.

What FNZ offers:

• A competitive base salary, bonus, and paid time off.

• FNZ will match pension plan contributions at 150%,up to 4% total Employee Contribution.

• Employer-paid medical, dental and vision insurance, and more.

• We are mission-led - work at the heart of a purpose-led organization where you can be proud of the impact you make, every day. Where you'll transform the way over 20 million people invest, making wealth management more accessible, sustainable and transparent to more people.

• Learning & development - Placing emphasis on a willingness to learn, to think differently, to be creative and to help drive innovation.

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, Pre-IPO global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world's largest companies;

• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the US, Canada, UK, Czech Republic, Asia, Australia or New Zealand

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About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth's growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with the world's leading financial institutions, with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).
Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.