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Senior Network Engineer, Australia

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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
Hybrid
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
Lead global corporate and cloud network architecture and roadmap. Design, deploy and operate secure, highly available hybrid LAN/WAN/Wi‑Fi/VPN across multi‑cloud and multi‑region sites. Own incident response, vendor hardware configuration, international connectivity (including China), infrastructure-as-code automation, documentation, mentoring, and participate in global on‑call rotations.
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About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

 
How you'll make impact

Airwallex’s corporate network needs to remain secure, reliable and scalable as our global footprint grows. You’ll own critical network infrastructure and help shape the systems, practices and team capabilities that support our people across regions.

  • Build the foundations of Airwallex’s corporate network and help shape the team structure and capabilities needed as we grow.

  • Design, deploy and maintain secure, highly available LAN, WAN, wireless and VPN infrastructure across our global offices and regions.

  • Design multi-region hybrid network patterns connecting physical offices, data centres and cloud environments, including AWS and Alibaba Cloud.

  • Configure and operate global connectivity across international leased lines and domestic internet connections, working across mixed-vendor environments.

  • Lead the configuration and troubleshooting of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and wireless access points.

  • Own CorpNet as a first responder and escalation point for complex network incidents, taking issues through to resolution and completing after-action reviews.

  • Partner with CorpSec, ProdSec, Engineering, Product, IT Engineering, Workplace and other teams to integrate network solutions and support business initiatives.

  • Work with IT Engineering and IT Support to troubleshoot endpoint network issues and build core networking capability across the team.

  • Use infrastructure-as-code and automation, including Terraform and Ansible, to improve network consistency and operational efficiency.

  • Develop and maintain network documentation, including diagrams, configurations and operational procedures.

  • Evaluate networking technologies and solutions that support Airwallex’s continued growth.

  • Mentor and coach network engineers, share knowledge, support skill development, manage performance and help attract strong talent.

  • Participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation for corporate networking issues, with occasional after-hours or weekend work for network upgrades where needed to minimise business disruption.

You’ll work from our Australia office three days a week.

What we're looking forEssentials
  • Senior-level experience designing, implementing and maintaining Juniper and Palo Alto Networks solutions.

  • Demonstrated experience working in a global, multi-vendor networking environment, including technologies such as Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco and Aruba.

  • Experience with networking solutions for mainland China and international connectivity.

  • Strong fundamentals in Wi-Fi technology and endpoint engineering; hardware experience is a plus, including Juniper Mist, Cisco Meraki or Aruba.

  • Expert command-line configuration skills across networking hardware and vendors, including JunOS and IOS.

  • Experience operating and troubleshooting complex corporate network environments.

  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

  • Ability to move quickly and make sound decisions with incomplete information when supporting a global business.

Preferred
  • Strong knowledge of Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect, Prisma and Prisma Cloud.

  • Experience managing or leading a team of network engineers, ideally in a startup or scaling environment.

  • A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field, alongside five or more years of relevant experience.

  • Understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth and SSO.

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS or GCP.

  • Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access-management principles in security and corporate IT environments.

  • Experience working with SaaS-based systems and applications.

  • Strong understanding of MDM systems across macOS and Windows, including Kandji, Jamf and Intune.

You'll thrive here if
  • You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.

  • You’re comfortable operating across time zones with a globally distributed team, including colleagues based in APAC and EMEA.

  • You own the outcome and you don't wait for permission to fix what's broken.

  • You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.

  • You say what you mean. You're direct, but you lead with respect.

Learn more about your team

Engineering at Airwallex is for people who want to define a category, not maintain one. We're reimagining how businesses interact with finance from the ground up, AI- and agent-native by default, think agent wallets, agentic bookkeepers, and spend-management autopilots, with APIs designed for agents as first-class users. The hard part is trust: building agent-native systems precise enough to move real money autonomously, on top of a decade of real infrastructure. This is a team for engineers who'd rather own an unsolved problem than inherit a mature one. If you want frontier problems, teammates who raise your standards, and a genuine clean slate on world-class infrastructure, this is the place to build it.

 

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Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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