Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Digital Assets

About the role

Optiver is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the Global Cloud Platforms team and support its digital assets trading capabilities. You will be responsible for designing and optimizing a secure, high-performance, and resilient cloud infrastructure tailored to the latency-sensitive demands of an always-on trading environment.

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 both on and off cloud with secrets management, network segmentation and traffic isolation.
• Implement governance and best practices for shared cloud platform ensuring safe multi-tenant operation.
• Deliver infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt, following Optiver standards and workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and automated testing for changes minimizing risk in always-on markets.
• Implement and enhance observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar tools.
• Participate in operational ownership through incident response, post-incident improvement, and continuous hardening.

Required skills

• Cloud infrastructure
• VPC design
• Terraform
• Terragrunt
• IaC
• Linux
• Python
• Go
• CI/CD
• Observability
• CloudWatch
• Prometheus
• Grafana

Nice to have

• Multi-cloud management
• AWS
• GCP
• AliCloud
• Latency-sensitive systems
• WebSocket infrastructure
• SR-IOV
• RDMA
• DPDK

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in owning production infrastructure as an engineer

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus
• 27 paid vacation days
• UK public holidays
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Commuting expenses support
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• ClassPass fitness membership
• Training and continuous learning opportunities
• International transfer opportunities

About the Company

Optiver is a market making institution and a partner to over 70 exchanges globally. Their mission is to improve markets by providing liquidity, accurate pricing, and transparency.