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. The Things We Live By: CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone. Click on the link to find out more about the things we live by at CMC Markets CMC Markets - Culture Video We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. We look forward to hearing from you! Please be vigilant when applying for jobs online. CMC Markets will never request personal identification details, such as Date of Birth or Tax File Number prior to an offer being made. If your initial application is successful, regardless of whether you've applied directly or through an approved recruiter, you will always liaise with a representative from CMC's Talent Acquisition team. We will only discuss a role you have formally applied for via phone or email (CMC Markets email address); and never via Facebook or Telegram.