APAC Network Engineering Lead for Trading Platforms

Optiver; Sydney; On-site; AUD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

The chance to work alongside best-in‑&

Competitive remuneration and leave ent

Training, mentorship and personal dev

Gym membership + chair massages

Daily breakfast, lunch and in-houseBar

Regular company trips

Job summary

Optiver is seeking a Senior Network Engineering Lead to own, evolve and scale the latency-sensitive global network that underpins our trading platform. You will build and mentor a high-performing team, shape architecture standards, and partner with trading and technology leadership to translate business priorities into network strategy.

You will drive convergence of architectures and tooling across regions, manage capacity and risk, and advance observability, automation and CI/CD-driven

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading high-performing network teams.
• Expertise in designing large-scale, low-latency networks.
• Strong network architecture and design fundamentals.
• Experience with IaC and automation practices.
• Comfortable in multi-vendor environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of network engineers.
• Own global network strategy across data centres and colocation.
• Define architecture standards and drive convergence across regions.
• Translate trading priorities into network roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Balance latency, resilience, complexity and risk in engineering choices.
• Define network infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD deployment practices.
• Improve observability and incident response, reducing toil.
• Build relationships with exchanges, carriers and external partners.

Skills

Network leadership

Low-latency networks

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Observability

Strategic thinking

Job description

Optiver is seeking a Senior Network Engineering Lead to own, evolve and scale the latency-sensitive global network that underpins our trading platform. You will build and mentor a high-performing team, shape architecture standards, and partner with trading and technology leadership to translate business priorities into network strategy.

You will drive convergence of architectures and tooling across regions, manage capacity and risk, and advance observability, automation and CI/CD-driven