Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer

Optiver; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health, dental, vision, life coverage

25 paid vacation days

Office perks

Job summary

Optiver’s Global Enterprise Clients team maintains the Microsoft 365 platform used by our worldwide workforce, ensuring collaboration, messaging, identity, and mobile access are reliable at scale. The role involves owning design, validation, and implementation, with a focus on observability, automation, and continuous capability uplift across global offices.

You will lead architectural decisions end-to-end, drive simplification of legacy patterns, and own BAU operations and automation across the

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a senior Microsoft 365 engineer or architect
• Deep hands-on expertise in SharePoint Online and Exchange Online
• Strong identity and access architecture including Entra ID/Azure AD and Conditional Access
• Proven track record simplifying complex hybrid environments
• Proficient with Log Analytics and KQL

Responsibilities

• Set direction and design standards for global Microsoft 365 platform
• Lead architectural decisions end-to-end from design to rollout
• Drive simplification of hybrid environments
• Define and operate collaboration/content platforms, governance and lifecycle
• Own enterprise messaging and identity/access foundations
• Architect Azure foundations supporting M365 and automation
• Design self-healing automation and production-grade tooling
• Operate BAU for the platform including incidents and changes
• Develop AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery while maintaining ownership

Skills

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Azure CLI

Terraform

GitHub IaC

Log Analytics

KQL

Azure AD

Conditional Access

SharePoint Online

Exchange Online

Identity & Access

Education

CS degree or related field

Microsoft 365/Azure certification

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure CLI

Log Analytics

Job description

Optiver's Global Enterprise Clients team owns the global Microsoft 365 platform — collaboration, messaging, identity, and mobile access — that our entire worldwide workforce runs on every day. It's treated as critical production infrastructure, not a back-office system. You'll join an established, distributed group of senior Microsoft 365 engineers spread across our global offices, operating a single global platform, in a hands-on role with real architectural influence: engineers here design solutions, validate them with peers, and implement them directly. Observability, continuous capability uplift, CI-driven change, and self-healing automation are central to how we keep this platform reliable at scale.

What You'll Do

• Set direction and design standards for our global Microsoft 365 platform across collaboration, messaging, identity, and device access
• Lead arcitectural decisions end-to-end — design, peer validation, implementation — driving change from inception through global rollout and adoption, with full ownership of global deliverables
• Drive systemic simplification, reducing legacy patterns, hybrid complexity, and accidental architecture
• Define and operate our collaboration and content platforms, including information architecture, governance, permissions, and lifecycle management
• Own enterprise messaging architecture, including global mail flow, routing, hybrid integration, and coexistence
• Architect identity and access foundations, covering authentication models, access control, lifecycle management, and hybrid integration
• Define and own mobile access architecture for iOS and Android
• Architect the Azure foundations that support Microsoft 365, identity, automation, monitoring, and remediation
• Treat observability as non-negotiable — design deep monitoring, alerting, and telemetry, using tooling that surfaces systemic risk and informs decisions
• Own BAU operations for the platform, including incidents, degradations, change execution, and continuous improvement
• Design, implement, and operate self-healing automation that closes the loop between detection, remediation, and prevention
• Build and maintain production-grade automation using industry-standard tooling, including AI-assisted development where it accelerates delivery without reducing ownership

What You'll Get

You'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you'll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you'll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package, including a global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who You Are

• 7+ years' experience as a senior Microsoft 365 engineer or architect, owning and operating mid-to-large enterprise platforms
• Deep hands-on expertise in SharePoint Online platform engineering and Exchange Online mail flow, including hybrid scenarios
• Strong command of identity and access architecture, including Entra ID / Azure AD and Entra ID Connect (Conditional Access, tenant restrictions, B2B, RBAC, enterprise apps, service principals, app proxy)
• Proven track record simplifying complex hybrid environments
• Strong PowerShell engineering skills and comfort with Microsoft Graph, Azure CLI, Terraform, and GitHub-based Infrastructure-as-Code workflows
• Highly proficient with Log Analytics and KQL
• Comfortable designing and operating Azure resources — policies, subscriptions, workbooks, storage accounts, VNETs, Traffic Manager
• Experience defining and owning MDM/Intune policy and configuration for iOS and Android, across both BYOD and corporate-managed settings
• Comfortable debating architecture with senior peers and backing decisions with data
• A clear, trusted communicator and technical mentor who raises the bar for others
• Thrives in a high-ownership, continuous-improvement environment, with demonstrated experience owning initiatives end-to-end — from conception through implementation, rollout, skills transfer, and sustained operation
• Able to autonomously run and deliver global projects across a distributed team and time zones, and drive change without heavy oversight

Experience That Helps

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or a related field; recent (:3 years) Microsoft certification in Azure or M365
• Background in an enterprise environment with heavy Microsoft platform adoption — Financial Services, Logistics & Transportation, Resources & Mining, Big Tech/SaaS/Cloud, or as a Managed Service Provider or Microsoft integration partner — particularly in large-user-base, campus-style environments
• Prior experience at Principal Consultant or Architect level, in presales design and engineering, or in project management
• Exposure to Microsoft 365 Defender and threat protection, Purview or advanced compliance tooling, Logic Apps/Power Automate/workflow platforms, or building and maintaining AI Copilot agents
• Experience in a trading firm or other ultra-low-tolerance production environment

Who We Are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.