Network Operations Engineer

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.

Since its establishment in 2012, our Shanghai office is a rapidly growing participant in the Chinese markets, trading exchange-listed futures, options and equities in China mainland. Our vision is to become the trusted partner in the development of Chinese financial markets. With the culture of a start-up but the backing of a 35+ year-old trading firm, the Optiver Shanghai office is truly unique. Everyone who joins us will help shape the future of our company and its global impact. Get ready: we are only just beginning.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Optiver is seeking a Network Operations Engineer with a customer service centric 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

WHO YOU ARE

• A Chinese citizen or able to provide evidence of full working rights
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Chinese
• 5+ years of working experience as a network engineer in an operational capacity
• Experience with L2/L3 networking, firewalls, and network security
• Strong knowledge of network performance, monitoring, and capacity planning
• Experience in monitoring and managing diverse international WAN networks
• Proficiency in network transport and routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast)
• Able to monitor, debug, troubleshoot issues arising in LAN/WANs
• Comfortable working with multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto)
• Ability to coordinate with 3rd parties and manage projects end-to-end
• Familiar with Unix systems and data center management
• Certifications like Arista ACE level 3, PCNSE, Cisco CCIE, CCNP or beyond are a plus

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks.
• Gym membership, sports and leisure activities, plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks.

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

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

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