Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Digital Assets
OptiverAbout the Role
Optiver is building its Digital Assets trading capabilities and seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to sit in the Global Cloud Platforms team. You will help build foundations for a new trading tenancy on Optiver's existing cloud platform and optimize it for the unique operational and performance needs of digital assets trading. Your focus will be on extending the cloud platform to meet the performance demands of a latency-sensitive, always-on trading environment.
You'll be accountable for delivering secure, performant, and robust infrastructure that directly supports trading outcomes including stability, latency, resilience, and safe change in the digital assets space. Key responsibilities include designing low-latency infrastructure, owning cloud infrastructure performance, building high-throughput connectivity patterns, driving security hygiene, delivering infrastructure as code with Terraform, and participating in operational ownership through incident response and continuous hardening.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in owning production infrastructure as an engineer (Platform, SRE, or Infrastructure engineering background)
- Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge, especially around VPC design, compute optimization, and performance networking features
- Proven ability to write and maintain Terraform modules and operate IaC safely through reviews, testing, and deployment pipelines
- Solid Linux fundamentals, including networking and systems performance tuning
- Ability to program in at least one language (e.g., Python or Go) for tooling, automation, and integration work
- Collaborative skills to work effectively with other team members and stakeholders
- Ability to communicate technical information to both technical & non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to gauge business problems and prioritize tasks accordingly
What You'll Get
- A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool
- 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays
- Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses
- Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership
- Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events
- International transfer opportunities for global career growth