WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we’re an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

Optiver is seeking a Network Engineer (Operations) with a passion for solving complex problems, optimizing performance, and reducing network complexity. As part of a team that manages the infrastructure for our proprietary trading systems, you will directly contribute to the design, optimization, and maintenance of globally distributed networks that are critical to our low-latency trading operations. Speed, reliability, and scalability are at the center of everything we do, and your work will have a direct impact on the performance of our market-making activities. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Providing technical expertise to support a high-frequency trading environment
• Automating and monitoring network infrastructure, reducing manual interventions
• Supporting end-to-end infrastructure deployments, including network and UNIX platforms, across data centers and global WAN environments
• Assisting with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades)
• Ensuring proper function of WAN networks across data centers and colocations
• Contributing to capacity planning, connectivity improvements, and traffic flow optimization
• Driving research and innovation to improve infrastructure reliability and performance, including evaluating bleeding-edge technology for use in the trading stack
• Contributing to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision
• Collaborating with developers, researchers, and hardware engineers on projects requiring a stable and scalable platform