Low-Latency Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Optiverus; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus structure

27 days vacation + UK holidays

Breakfast and lunch provided

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

ClassPass

Training & conferences

International transfer opportunities

Job summary

Optiver is expanding its digital assets trading capabilities and seeks a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Global Cloud Platforms team. You will help extend our hybrid cloud platform to meet latency-sensitive trading needs, focusing on secure, high-performance, multi-tenant infrastructure.

You will design, implement, and operate CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response, collaborating with global teams to deliver robust cloud services for trading outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience owning production infrastructure as an engineer (Platform, SRE, or Infra Eng).
• Deep cloud knowledge with VPC design, compute optimization and performance networking.
• Proficient writing Terraform modules and safe IaC via reviews and tests.
• Solid Linux fundamentals including networking and performance tuning.
• Programming in Python or Go for tooling and automation.
• Collaborative, able to communicate with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to gauge business problems and prioritize work.

Responsibilities

• Design low-latency infrastructure using cloud primitives and optimized configurations.
• Own and enhance cloud infrastructure performance setups.
• Build and run high-throughput, resilient connectivity patterns for exchange integrations.
• Drive security hygiene with secrets management, network segmentation and traffic isolation.
• Implement governance for safe multi‑tenant operation on the shared platform.
• Deliver infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt per Optiver standards.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and automated testing for changes in always-on markets.
• Implement observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar tools.
• Participate in incident response, post-incident improvements, and hardening.

Skills

Production infra ownership

Cloud infra design

Terraform

Terragrunt

Linux fundamentals

Networking performance

Python or Go

Stakeholder comms

Prioritization

Multi-cloud experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Optiver is expanding its digital assets trading capabilities and seeks a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Global Cloud Platforms team. You will help extend our hybrid cloud platform to meet latency-sensitive trading needs, focusing on secure, high-performance, multi-tenant infrastructure.

You will design, implement, and operate CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response, collaborating with global teams to deliver robust cloud services for trading outcomes.