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Head of Infrastructure

ECLARO

  • Huntersville, NC
  • 2 days ago

    Highlights

    Demonstrated ownership of disaster recovery builds and infrastructure supporting business continuity plans, including alternate sites, critical dependencies, recovery runbooks, and defined recovery time and recovery point objectives. Experience supporting a disciplined software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure development and deployment environments, source control, automated release pipelines, testing, approvals, segregation of duties, and production rollback procedures.
    ECLARO

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHuntersville, NC
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size500 to 999 employees
    Year Founded1999
    Websitehttp://www.eclaroit.com

    Description

    Head of Infrastructure
    Job Number: 26-01776
     
    What if trading never had to stop? ECLARO is looking for an Head of Infrastructure for our client in Huntersville, NC.
     
    Our client is a fintech innovator transforming global trading by making U.S. equities accessible beyond traditional market hours. Through innovative technology and a global-first approach, they’re connecting investors worldwide and shaping the future of financial markets.
     
    Position Overview:
    • Lead the firm's infrastructure and cybersecurity operations across Equinix data centers and remote user environments.
    • Manage a five-person team, with authority to hire additional resources as needed.
    • Own infrastructure architecture, production reliability, security, disaster recovery, and technical incident response, with responsibility for vendors and budgets.
     
    Required Qualifications:
    • 10+ Years of Relevant Experience
    • Infrastructure experience within a broker-dealer, ATS, exchange, or comparable trading environment, including leadership responsibility and strong hands-on technical expertise.
    • Experience supporting low-latency trading infrastructure, exchange connectivity, market data networks, and redundant production environments.
    • Deep knowledge of networking, firewalls, network segmentation, Windows and Linux servers, storage, virtualization, identity management, and endpoint security.
    • Proven cybersecurity experience covering intrusion detection and prevention, security monitoring, vulnerability management, privileged access, and incident containment and recovery.
    • Demonstrated ownership of disaster recovery builds and infrastructure supporting business continuity plans, including alternate sites, critical dependencies, recovery runbooks, and defined recovery time and recovery point objectives.
    • Experience leading end-to-end BCP and DR exercises, including production failover and failback, backup restoration, cyber recovery, and validation of trading and business operations with business owners.
    • Experience coordinating street-wide testing with exchanges, clearing firms, connectivity providers, and trading counterparties; documenting results and closing identified gaps.
    • Experience supporting a disciplined software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure development and deployment environments, source control, automated release pipelines, testing, approvals, segregation of duties, and production rollback procedures.
    • Expertise in infrastructure automation, configuration management, performance tuning, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization.
    • Strong production discipline covering monitoring, on-call support, change controls, patching, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
    • Ability to lead staff and service providers, manage budgets, and communicate operational, security, and recovery risks to senior management.
    • Relevant infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, or business continuity certifications, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
     
    Preferred Qualifications:
    • 5+ Years of Relevant Experience
    • Modernizing infrastructure while maintaining uninterrupted trading operations.
    • Developing a growing infrastructure team and reducing reliance on individual staff or vendors.
    • Managing cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, alongside Microsoft 365 and corporate technology services.
    • Working within an organization subject to SOC 2 examinations, a Regulation SCI entity, or another highly regulated securities industry environment.
    • Managing data centers, colocation facilities, telecommunications providers, and critical technology dependencies.
     
    Salary: $250000.00-$275000.00/Year
     
    If interested, you may contact:
    Eric McAuley
    Eric.McAuley@eclaro.com
    9803601322
     
    Equal Opportunity Employer: Eclaro values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

    About Company

    Eclaro is a Business and Technology Consulting Firm that connects top talent with opportunities nationwide. We have direct access to Hiring Managers from leading Fortune 1000 organizations in almost every industry segment, with particular expertise in:

    • Technology and Business Consulting
    • Financial Services and Insurance
    • Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
    • Consumer Products, Public Sector, and Utilities

    Eclaro provides fully customizable, comprehensive talent acquisition and management of seasoned professionals through a number of business models, including:

    • Consulting
    • Professional Hiring
    • Global Integrated Delivery™
    • Managed Services

    Eclaro recruits and manages a staff of highly skilled individuals in an array of specialized disciplines enabling our clients to leverage new opportunities, respond to increased and changing demands, and increase their profitability.

    Eclaro’s Management Team averages over 25 years of experience in partnering with clients in technical, corporate operations and human capital solutions. We hold ISO 9001:2008 certification and have achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification in Security, Availability and Confidentiality. Eclaro’s decades of expertise and collaborative practice have proven that The Right People are The Answer.

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