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About the Role
As the Head of Infrastructure (APAC), you will be the primary regional partner to the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure, leading the APAC infrastructure engineering capability. You will set regional priorities, validate architectures, and ensure the delivery of resilient, reliable, low-latency infrastructure, balancing engineering quality with operational reliability and business timelines.
Responsibilities
- Act as the APAC Infrastructure leader, owning regional outcomes, escalations, decisions, and cross-team delivery.
- Ensure coherent regional delivery from globally managed teams by defining operating cadence, setting SLAs/OKRs, and removing blockers.
- Translate firm and APAC business priorities into clear infrastructure outcomes, term plans, and measurable delivery commitments.
- Own APAC-level incident and change escalation, shape postmortems and remediation, and ensure robust assurance over change & configuration controls and site resilience.
- Set cadence, delegate effectively, hold leaders accountable, and continuously improve regional practices.
- Partner with other regional leads to converge regional processes into global ones, share best practices, and highlight regional constraints.
- Mentor and develop senior technical talent, promoting psychological safety and an engineering culture of ownership.
- Build and maintain durable stakeholder relationships through executive-ready communication.
- Take responsibility for regional talent strategy, identifying gaps and defining headcount and senior-hire priorities.
- Oversee the infrastructure foundations for trading and non-trading environments across Sydney, Shanghai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Requirements
- Strong engineering pedigree with hands-on technical experience and proven architecture/engineering leadership, preferably in infrastructure engineering and/or latency-sensitive systems.
- Experience leading engineering functions at Head/Director level, defining technical roadmaps, establishing standards, and growing engineering teams.
- Demonstrated operational judgement to balance engineering quality with operational reliability and business timelines.
- Executive-level stakeholder skills and the ability to represent the region in global technical discussions.
- Experience operating in a matrix organization and coordinating delivery from globally managed, distributed teams across multiple countries and timezones.
- A builder mindset with a record of driving standardization, automation, and turning bespoke solutions into durable engineering practices.
- Willingness to travel approximately 4 weeks per year across the US, Europe, and APAC.
Skills
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Latency-sensitive systems
- Technical Roadmaps
- Engineering Standards
- Team Growth
- Operational Reliability
- Stakeholder Management
- Matrix Organization Coordination
- Standardization
- Automation
- Incident Management
- Change Management
- Configuration Controls
- Site Resilience
- Talent Strategy
- Mentoring
- Communication
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Head/Director Level
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- Global profit pool
- Training, mentorship, and personal development opportunities
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and in-house barista
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
- Guided relocation, competitive relocation package, and visa sponsorship
About the Company
- Optiver is a global electronic trading firm that is highly technology-driven.
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.