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About the Role

Lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for evolving the platforms that power Optiver’s low-latency trading operations. Your leadership will directly impact system resilience, incident response, automation, and business performance in high-stakes markets. Trading at Optiver requires bulletproof infrastructure — and your team will be the one keeping it that way. This is your chance to drive meaningful change in a globally distributed, high-impact environment where engineering excellence directly fuels business success.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a world-class team of Production Operations Engineers, including hiring, coaching, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.
Drive strategy and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance — especially during peak market activity.
Design and manage global support coverage, including a follow-the-sun model to ensure 24/7 reliability and seamless handovers across regions.
Establish operational standards including SLAs, KPIs, and control frameworks that ensure discipline, audit-readiness, and high service quality.
Own the incident lifecycle — from real-time response to root cause analysis and long-term remediation — embedding lessons learned into processes and tooling.
Lead improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.
Ensure production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and infrastructure teams.
Manage colocation environments and ensure adequate redundancy, performance headroom, and operational capacity planning.
Contribute technically to platforms, tools, and processes that enhance operational leverage, observability, and fault tolerance.
Represent the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

Requirements

Proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.
Strong organizational skills with experience managing multi-region support and coordinating global rosters.
Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.
Deep expertise in Linux-based distributed systems, ideally in capital markets, trading, or similarly fast-paced environments.
Strong proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash), CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems.
Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.
Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence.
Experience with colocation infrastructure, system tuning, and real-time telemetry is highly valuable.
Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.

Skills

Linux
Python
Bash
CI/CD
Observability systems
SRE
Production Engineering
Incident Response
Automation
System Tuning
Real-time Telemetry

Location

APAC
Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Team Lead
40% operational

Benefits

Performance-based bonus structure
Global profit pool
Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.