Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam with offices worldwide. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital at our own risk. Our Sydney office plays a key role in Asian markets trading various products across exchanges.
Infrastructure Lead Role
* Leadership and Team Management: You will lead high-performing engineers and drive technical initiatives across hybrid infrastructure, collaborating globally to ensure reliability, scalability, operational excellence, and influence long-term technical direction.
As an experienced Infrastructure Lead, you will join our APAC Infrastructure team in Sydney. Key responsibilities include leading and mentoring a team of infrastructure engineers, developing and managing the global Optiver Trading Workstation infrastructure, influencing front-end systems used by all traders, driving automation infrastructure-as-code best practices using Python, PowerShell, Terraform, owning critical systems across VMware, Windows Server, NetApp enterprise infrastructure, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure observability and proactive system monitoring.
Requirements and Qualifications
* Proven Leadership Experience: Proven leadership experience with strong technical background and hands-on expertise with virtualization infrastructure, Windows Server management, debugging, and NetApp enterprise storage systems.
* Observability and Strategic Thinking: Experience with observability stacks and strategic thinking with solid understanding of Active Directory, DNS, networking concepts.
At Optiver, you will join a culture of collaboration, excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers, creative problem solvers, driven by continuous improvement. In a supportive, high-performing environment, you will work alongside talented colleagues tackling complex problems in the financial markets.