Network Engineer

About the role

Optiver’s industry-leading proprietary trading systems depend on reliable and scalable networks to power our trading activities on financial exchanges around the world. As a Network Engineer, your job will be to ensure Optiver has the fast connectivity and physical infrastructure to allow our traders and engineers to get market data accurately and quickly, making a direct impact to our business.

What you’ll do:

Optiver’s bespoke trading infrastructure requires diverse network engineering experience. From low-latency, network automation and WAN technologies to data center and colocation design, you’ll l work on critical projects that will help us scale our trading business:

- Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and manage our network infrastructure

- Work on designing new colocations and improving connectivity in existing colocations as well as our Data Center network

- Identify, recommend and implement network system optimizations and focus on network solutions that provide fast information

- Assist with planned maintenances (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades)

- Provide technical expertise and support to a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment

- Ensure all aspects of our WAN network link together across our global data center presence

- Contribute to capacity planning and traffic flow optimization

- Help push us towards intelligent automation

- Tackle technical debt while removing complexity

Who you are:

- Strong network and performance monitoring skills and knowledge of network capacity planning

- Experience working across LAN and global WAN networks

- Cisco and Arista network equipment experience preferred

- Experience troubleshooting network transport protocols – TCP/UDP

- Deep understanding and experience with routing protocols (such as OSPF, BGP) and network protocols (such as Multicast, Spanning Tree, HSRP)

- Network automation experience with strong Python scripting experience preferred

- Networking monitoring and alerting systems experience

- A belief that good documentation helps successful project delivery

- A drive for improvement and motivation to push through friction

What You’ll Get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries

- A highly competitive compensation package

- Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure