This is a Network Operations Engineer role with one of the leading companies in AU right now Optiver with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off. More About the Role at Optiver Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. WHAT YOU'LL DO Optiver is seeking a Network Engineer (Operations) with a passion for solving complex problems, optimizing performance, and reducing network complexity. As part of a team that manages the infrastructure for our proprietary trading systems, you will directly contribute to the design, optimization, and maintenance of globally distributed networks that are critical to our low-latency trading operations. Speed, reliability, and scalability are at the center of everything we do, and your work will have a direct impact on the performance of our market-making activities. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to: - Providing technical expertise to support a high-frequency trading environment - Automating and monitoring network infrastructure, reducing manual interventions - Supporting end-to-end infrastructure deployments, including network and UNIX platforms, across data centers and global WAN environments - Assisting with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades) - Ensuring proper function of WAN networks across data centers and colocations - Contributing to capacity planning, connectivity improvements, and traffic flow optimization - Driving research and innovation to improve infrastructure reliability and performance, including evaluating bleeding-edge technology for use in the trading stack - Contributing to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision - Collaborating with developers, researchers, and hardware engineers on projects requiring a stable and scalable platform WHO YOU ARE - 5 years of working experience as a network engineer - Strong knowledge of network performance, monitoring, and capacity planning - Experience in monitoring and managing diverse international WAN networks - Able to monitor, debug, troubleshoot issues arising in LAN/ WANs - Proficiency in network transport and routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast) - Comfortable working with multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto) - Experience with L2/L3 networking, firewalls, and network security - Ability to coordinate with 3rd parties and manage projects end-to-end - Familiar with Unix systems and data center management - Certifications like Arista ACE level 3, PCNSE, Cisco CCIE, CCNP or beyond are a plus WHAT YOU'LL GET - The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment - Competitive remuneration and additional leave entitlements - Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities - Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages - Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista - Regular social events including an annual company trip If you don’t think you're a perfect fit, you should still sign up to Hatch and create a profile, we'll match you to other roles that suit your profile. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Optiver. ✅ Applying here is the first step in the hiring process for this role at Optiver. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. To put it simply, Hatch is for everyone.