Senior Network Engineering Lead (APAC)

About this role

<div class="content-wrapper"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <p><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_11q7y4f7 _5pioz8co _189eyh40 _n3tdv77o _1il9nqa1 _19lcevot _d0altlke acronym-highlight" data-testid="acronym-highlight">APAC</span></span> head office.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="content-wrapper"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="10266"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">WHAT YOU'<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189eyh40 _1il9buyh _19lcevot _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">LL</span></span></span> DO&nbsp;</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="11456">&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="11" data-local-id="a2370753c276">We are looking for a senior Network Engineering lead to own, evolve &amp; scale the network infrastructure that underpins our trading business.&nbsp;This is a senior, highly technical leadership role at the intersection of networking, infrastructure, trading and business strategy. You will be responsible for the performance, resilience and direction of a latency-sensitive global network, while building and developing a high-performing engineering team around it.&nbsp;The role requires someone who can operate comfortably at multiple levels: going deep on technical architecture when needed, setting direction for senior engineers, making thoughtful risk/reward trade-offs, and partnering effectively with trading and technology leadership.&nbsp;You will act as a key liaison between trading, technology and network engineering; translating business requirements into infrastructure strategy and ensuring the network evolves in step with the firm's needs.&nbsp;As part of the Infrastructure leadership group, you will also help shape our broader infrastructure strategy, engineering standards and culture. Working with teams globally, you will drive convergence of architectures, tooling and operating practices where it improves performance, resilience and simplicity, while recognising where market or business requirements justify deliberate differences.&nbsp;This is not a generalist management role. Technical credibility is essential. You should be equally comfortable discussing detailed network architecture and system behaviour with engineers, prioritisation and opportunity cost with trading and engineering teams, and investment, risk and outcomes with senior leadership.&nbsp;The network is a critical component of our trading platform, and this role will be instrumental in enabling the success of our trading strategies and maintaining our competitive edge.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="11" data-local-id="a2370753c276">&nbsp;</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="140ebbff-ea3e-4be5-9ab9-597e805b1551" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1878" data-local-id="0861fe4dee1b">Lead, develop and grow a team of highly specialised network engineers, setting a high technical bar while creating an environment of autonomy, ownership and continuous development.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2062" data-local-id="71a06ddd1f06">Own the technical strategy and evolution of our global network infrastructure across data centre, WAN and colocation environments.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2196" data-local-id="9040ef862103">Establish clear architecture standards and design principles, driving convergence and reuse across regions while allowing purposeful divergence where latency, market structure or business requirements demand it.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2411" data-local-id="f41e529d85c1">Partner with trading and technology teams to understand business priorities and translate them into network strategy, investment decisions and roadmap priorities.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2577" data-local-id="ad77a3c0f558">Make informed trade-offs between latency, resilience, complexity, operational risk, engineering effort and business opportunity.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2709" data-local-id="467535d513bd">Drive major network initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation and measurable business outcome.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2838" data-local-id="9997990585fc">Own capacity planning, connectivity strategy and the continued evolution of network performance and resilience across our globally distributed environment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2997" data-local-id="2244f7a19a8c">Define and execute our approach to network infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning and CI/CD-driven deployments.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3120" data-local-id="ac97117c7162">Drive automation, including appropriate use of AI-assisted tooling, to reduce operational toil, improve engineering effectiveness and accelerate incident detection and response.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3301" data-local-id="6b5887c57077">E