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About the Role

The Global Production Operations Engineering (ProdOps) team maintains and scales Optiver’s low-latency trading systems, ensuring a safe, stable, and efficient production environment. The engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents.
• Working hours will involve a combination of standard business hours and weekend shifts for weekend trading support and test (with time off during the week).
• Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance.
• Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate deployments of new trading products, systems, and exchanges.
• Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring trading systems operate within performance thresholds.
• Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure long-term stability of production systems.
• Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.
• Manage the colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.
• Automate system management processes, while maintaining control over critical operations.

Requirements

• Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.
• Fundamental efficiency with CI/CD tooling.
• Scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems.
• Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.
• A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.
• A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently.
• Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change.
• Prior experience in high-frequency trading environments is a plus but not required.

Skills

• Linux
• Networking fundamentals
• Build systems
• Deployment systems
• Version control systems
• CI/CD tooling
• Python scripting
• Relational databases
• PostgreSQL

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• L2/L3 support

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure
• 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.