IT & Software

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Digital Assets

Optiver

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As part of the Global Cloud Platforms team, you will extend and optimize Optiver’s cloud foundation to support a latency-sensitive digital assets trading tenancy. You’ll build secure, high-performance infrastructure and reliable connectivity for exchange integrations, while enforcing governance and safe multi-tenant operations. This role emphasizes IaC, observability, and incident-driven hardening to sustain always-on trading. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to shape scalable, low-latency cloud platforms that empower trading outcomes.

Pay / Benefits
  • performance-based bonus
  • 27 paid vacation days
  • private medical insurance
  • pension scheme
  • ClassPass fitness membership
  • training and conferences
Responsibilities
  • Design and implement low-latency infrastructure using cloud primitives and optimized configurations
  • Own and optimize cloud infrastructure performance setups
  • Build and operate high-throughput, resilient connectivity patterns for exchange integrations
  • Drive security hygiene including secrets management, network segmentation, and traffic isolation
  • Implement governance for shared cloud platform enabling safe multi-tenant operation
  • Deliver infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt per Optiver standards
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for changes in always-on markets
  • Enhance observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools
  • Participate in incident response, post-incident improvements, and continuous hardening
Key requirements
  • Proven experience owning production infrastructure as an engineer (Platform, SRE, or Infrastructure)
  • Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge with emphasis on VPC design, compute optimization, and performance networking
  • Proven ability to write and maintain Terraform modules and operate IaC safely through reviews, tests, and pipelines
  • Solid Linux fundamentals including networking and system performance tuning
  • Ability to program in Python or Go for tooling and automation
  • Strong collaboration and stakeholder communication skills
  • Ability to assess business problems and prioritize tasks effectively
  • collaboration
  • stakeholder communication
  • prioritization
  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • IaC

Reference: WJ-747_30134954

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