Network Operations Engineer Contract

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 2000 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.

Optivers Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets trading a range of products. Established in 1996 were an active participant on the Hong Kong Korea Singapore Taiwan and Japan exchanges and act as Optivers APAC head office.

WHAT YOULL DO

The Network Operations Engineers are responsible for the network security infrastructure that underpins Optivers trading and business operations across the Asia Pacific region. This includes office networks data centre environments and a complex international WAN. We are providing a reliable fast and well supported network and Unix platform to run our core business on this requires a good understanding of not only the technical network problem but also the broader business problem being solved. This team is successful when they are collaborating and solving complex problems with simple solutions and are constantly making optimizations in reliability capacity scalability and latency. Your responsibilities will include:

• Support end-to-end infrastructure deployments in Asia Pacific data centers including but not limited to network and security platforms

• Drive research innovation and implementation of infrastructure capacity and reliability optimizations in our Infrastructure environment

• Build manage and support our complex international LAN/WAN & security environment using modern tooling in an IaC (Infrastructure as Code) environment

• Collaborate with developers researchers and our hardware engineers on projects that require a stable and scalable platform to operate on

• Monitor the health and performance of network and infrastructure systems investigating alerts and proactively identifying operational issues
  
  
• Participate in incident response working with internal teams and vendors to diagnose and resolve service impacting problems.

WHO YOU ARE

• 3- 8 years of experience working as a network engineer in an operational environment
  
  
• Experience in managing network systems using Infrastructure as code (IaC) methodology

• Experience working in a multi zone multi tier firewall architecture across APAC

• Solid understanding of network transport and routing protocols such as TCP/UDP OSPF BGP and Multicast

• Experience designing implementing and supporting DC environments.

• Experience in monitoring and managing diverse international WAN networks.

• Strong knowledge of L2/L3 networking firewalls and network security.
  
  
• Experience managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code approaches and tools such as Git Terraform or Ansible.
  
  
• Certifications such as Arista ACEPCNSE CCNP or CCIE are a plus

WHAT YOULL GET

• Youll join a culture of collaboration and excellence where youll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement youll thrive in a supportive high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise you will be offered a competitive salary package as well as access to a range of Optiver perks including:

• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals
• Competitive remuneration and additional leave entitlements
• Training mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast lunch and an in-house barista
• Regular social events including a company trip every two years