Senior Network Engineering Lead
Optiver is a global proprietary trading firm and market maker, including an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026
About Optiver
Optiver (optiver.com) is an Amsterdam-headquartered global proprietary trading firm and options market maker with an active digital-assets business (24/7 crypto options/spot market making, hiring crypto traders).
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About the Role
You will lead a network engineering function while remaining close to complex production systems. You will shape global network architecture, set technical standards, guide major initiatives, manage capacity and connectivity, automate provisioning and deployments, improve observability and resilience, lead incident response, and connect infrastructure decisions to business outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience leading developing or technically guiding network engineering teams
- Deep experience with large scale low latency data centre and colocation networks
- Strong network architecture and design expertise
- Knowledge of scalability resilience redundancy and performance optimization
- Experience with infrastructure as code configuration management and network automation
- Hands on experience in complex multi vendor environments
- Experience establishing technical standards and engineering practices
- Ability to connect infrastructure decisions to trading outcomes risk and opportunity cost
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
Responsibilities
- Lead develop and grow network engineering teams
- Own global network infrastructure strategy
- Establish architecture standards and design principles
- Translate business priorities into network strategy
- Balance latency resilience complexity risk and opportunity
- Drive network initiatives from definition through outcomes
- Own capacity planning and connectivity strategy
- Define infrastructure as code and automation practices
- Improve incident detection and response
- Ensure network observability and resilience
- Collaborate on tooling deployment and operational standards
- Manage relationships with exchanges carriers colocation providers and vendors
- Contribute to infrastructure leadership strategy
Benefits
- Additional leave entitlements
- Gym membership
- Weekly in house chair massages
- Daily breakfast lunch and in house barista
- Regular social events including a company trip every two years