The Role
Senior leadership role owning strategy, reliability, and modernization of Linux, storage, and platform services. Lead a 14-person global team, drive automation with IaC (Ansible, Terraform, Git), partner on Kubernetes and hybrid cloud, embed secure-by-default practices, support high-availability trading environments, and deliver a roadmap toward self-service, stability, and operational excellence.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking a Managing Director, Global Head of Linux to join Cantor Fitzgerald Technology Markets LLC. This role is a senior leadership position, requiring a hands-on approach and the ability to navigate between executive strategy and technical reviews. The successful candidate will lead a global team, focusing on the reliability and modernization of Linux, storage, and platform services. They will define the target architecture, enhance automation, and create a robust and secure platform, while also stabilizing the current infrastructure. This role is crucial in setting the direction for the firm's technology and trading environments, ensuring a high-performing team with clear ownership and modern engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a 14-person global team, establishing clear ownership, service standards, and engineering practices.
- Own the strategy and lifecycle management for Linux platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and variants, ensuring compliance, performance, and support.
- Set the direction for enterprise storage services, covering backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and performance across trading and corporate environments.
- Drive an automation-first approach, utilizing Ansible, Terraform, and Git-based workflows to reduce manual work and enhance infrastructure operations.
- Partner with engineering teams on Kubernetes, hybrid cloud patterns, and distributed systems, ensuring resilience and operating standards.
- Embed secure-by-default practices across Linux and storage platforms, managing secrets, privileged access, and implementing security controls.
- Support high-availability trading environments, focusing on operational discipline, latency, change control, and fast recovery.
- Work closely with infrastructure, cyber, application, and operations leaders to translate business needs into platform roadmaps and priorities.
- Ensure a clear Linux and storage strategy, moving towards infrastructure-as-code and self-service models, with a focus on stability and transformation.
- Senior infrastructure leadership experience in complex enterprise or financial services, managing Linux, storage, and automation functions.
- Strong technical expertise and the ability to guide engineers without direct involvement in changes.
- Proven track record in replacing manual operational tasks with reliable and automated tooling.
- Deep understanding of regulated production environments, cyber expectations, and operational resilience.
- Comfortable working with diverse stakeholders, including senior executives and front-office clients.
- AI-forward mindset, actively exploring AI and machine learning for infrastructure improvements.
- Excellent leadership skills, able to set direction, build trust, and raise the team's operating standards.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a focus on translating business demands into technical roadmaps.
- Experience in incident response, change control, and vulnerability management.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Salary Expectations: $200,00 - $250,000
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About Us Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., with over 16,000 employees, has been a leading global financial services firm at the forefront of financial and technological innovation since 1945.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is a preeminent investment bank serving more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets, investment banking, SPAC underwriting, PIPE placements, commercial real estate, and for its global distribution platform. Capitalizing on the firm’s financial acumen and technology prowess, Cantor’s portfolio of businesses also includes Prime Brokerage, Asset Management, and other businesses and ventures. For 79 years, Cantor has consistently fueled the growth of original ideas, pioneered new markets, and provided superior service to clients. Cantor operates trading desks in every major financial center globally, with offices in over 30 locations around the world.
As one of the few remaining private partnerships on Wall Street, Cantor has the distinct ability to focus on long-term value creation and solid relationship building. Our structure allows us to respond quickly to client needs, develop solutions that address complex challenges, avoid the limitations of bureaucracy, and attract talented individuals who are driven to succeed.
Skills Required
- Senior infrastructure leadership experience managing Linux, storage, and automation in complex enterprise or financial services environments
- Experience leading and developing global teams, establishing ownership, service standards, and engineering practices
- Expertise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux platform lifecycle management
- Proven experience implementing automation using Ansible, Terraform, and Git-based workflows
- Experience with Kubernetes, hybrid cloud patterns, and distributed systems
- Experience with enterprise storage including backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and performance
- Demonstrated knowledge of security controls: secrets management, privileged access, vulnerability management, and secure-by-default practices
- Experience in incident response, change control, operational discipline, and supporting low-latency trading environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Advanced degree
- AI-forward mindset; familiarity with exploring AI/ML for infrastructure improvements
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The Company
What We Do
Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading global financial services firm, serving clients from over 30 offices around the world. Founded in 1945 as a securities brokerage and investment bank, the firm pioneered computer-based bond trading, built one of the broadest distribution networks in the industry and became the market’s premier dealer of government securities. Today, Cantor Fitzgerald is known for its strength across a diverse array of businesses, including equity and fixed income capital markets, investment banking, commercial real estate finance and services, prime brokerage, asset management and wealth management, and e-commerce and online ventures. In all its businesses, the firm is an acknowledged leader in developing advanced technologies to expand market access, and help clients achieve their most important financial and strategic objectives. This commitment to client-centered innovation has led to enduring relationships with many of the world’s most demanding institutional investors and corporations. For more information please visit www.cantor.com.
