As Optiver continues to find news ways of improving what we do in the context of strong business growth, we have identified an opportunity for a completely new role at Optiver within our Trading Infrastructure team: this is an opportunity to help us elevate the way we manage the common systems upon which our development teams rely upon leveraging your experience in either DevOps, SRE or Observability fields.

 

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

 

Optiver Chicago’s culture parallels the energetic city we’re immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver’s Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

 

In this senior role, you will focus on Observability and Shared Systems, improving our alerting, insight, and visibility into our systems as well as properly owning the common systems upon which development relies.

 

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to have:

⦁ Hands-on expertise in DevOps/SRE/Observability related fields.

⦁ Experience working directly with stakeholders to define problems, plans, and ultimately execution.

 

In addition, it would be great if you had experience in some or all of: Linux; Networking; Software Development.

 

You are a highly experienced Engineer with a good breadth of infrastructure architectural knowledge. You are comfortable with being in an empowered position whereby you are often called upon to make decisions, applying a common-sense, pragmatic approach resulting in dealing with the problems that really matter.

 

You will be able to demonstrate your leadership qualities in the way you work, communicate and take independent action when required. You will be very used to working with other teams, including global colleagues and be an effective communicator with these groups. You will also have the ability to build and grow a high performing team.

 

You will have some area of technical strength you can point to with confidence but also an ability to simplify complex problems and find consistency.

 

Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.

Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.

Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.  

 

Alongside this you will get great other benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid commuting expenses and health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.