Network Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Network Engineer to join our rapidly growing office in Mumbai. You'll be responsible for the design and management of both our enterprise and trading networks, optimising our systems for reliability, scalability and performance characteristics, like latency, to help us remain competitive in the market.

Optiver’s bespoke infrastructure offers a diverse network engineering experience. Advance your career in a unique environment, where you'll be supported to find the simplest solutions to some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

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.

In Asia Pacific, Optiver was one of the first global market makers to establish a presence in the region, with the incorporation our Sydney office in 1996. Since then, we have expanded our footprint by establishing offices in Taipei (2005), Hong Kong (2007), Shanghai (2012) and Singapore (2021). The business in Mumbai is newly established and deemed to be an integral part of the APAC strategy, with an anticipation of significant growth over the coming years.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

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Providing technical expertise to support a high-frequency trading environment

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Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents across network, security, and systems infrastructure

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Automating and monitoring network infrastructure to improve reliability and reduce manual operational work

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Supporting end-to-end infrastructure deployments across data centres, offices, and global WAN environments

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Assisting with planned upgrades and maintenance including migrations, capacity expansions, and hardware or software upgrades

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Ensuring the stability and performance of WAN connectivity between data centres and colocations

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Contributing to capacity planning, connectivity improvements, and traffic flow optimisation

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Driving improvements in infrastructure reliability and performance, including evaluating new technologies for use in the trading platform

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Contributing to the standardisation and automation of our environments through Infrastructure as Code