Responsibilities

- Provide technical expertise and support to high‑frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast‑paced setting.
- Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment.
- Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
- Coordinate deployments of current trading products, systems, and exchanges, ensuring readiness for events such as corporate actions or special announcements.
- Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring the trading systems operate within performance thresholds.
- Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure the long‑term stability of production systems, even under extreme conditions.
- Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.
- Manage colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.
- Automate system management processes while maintaining control over critical operations.

Work hours include standard business hours with occasional weekend shifts for support of weekend trading activities and testing.

Qualifications

Technical skills:

- Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or other database systems.




- Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.

Non‑technical skills:

- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.
- Pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high‑intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently.
- Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed.
- Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change.
- Prior experience in high‑frequency trading environments is a plus but not required.

Benefits

- A performance‑based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry, with profits combined across desks, teams, and offices into a global profit pool.
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in‑house barista.
- Gym membership plus weekly in‑house chair massages.
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Diversity & Inclusion

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

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📌 Production Operations Engineer (Trading Systems / SRE / Application Support) (City of Sydney)
🏢 Optiver
📍 City of Sydney