AI Operations Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Since its establishment in 2012, our Shanghai office is a rapidly growing participant in the Chinese markets, trading exchange-listed futures, options and equities in China mainland. Our vision is to become the trusted partner in the development of Chinese financial markets. With the culture of a start-up but the backing of a 35+ year-old trading firm, the Optiver Shanghai office is truly unique. Everyone who joins us will help shape the future of our company and its global impact. Get ready: we are only just beginning.

What You'll Do:
Our AI Operations team ensures that the services underpinning our AI stack operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. To support Optiver's growing AI program, we're looking for a motivated AI operations engineer to join our team in [Sydney/Shanghai]. You'll help architect, implement and monitor deployments of our AI platform to enable safe and effective deployments of agents.

As an AI Operations Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Deploying and maintaining 3rd party and in-house containerised components of our AI platform.

• Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver's evolving needs.

• Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimising performance to meet business demands.

• Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.

• Ensuring we maintain & monitor system health with performance metrics and observability tools.

• Joining our rotating support and roster to facilitate operations.

Who You Are:

• Experience in Linux engineering, container orchestration debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning.

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast, and packet analysis.

• Hands-on experience with system/network tools such as EBPF, tcpdump, strace, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc.

• Experience with Linux security hardening techniques.

• Understanding of SSO / SCIM for 3rd party tool integration.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and PR-based workflows.

• Familiarity with Ansible / Terraform for managing deployment and configuration of systems.

• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like ElasticSearch, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, and Alert Manager.

• Proficiency in Python for automating operational tasks and system administration.

• Ability to manage large projects, work collaboratively in a team, and communicate effectively to drive technical improvements.

• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance engineering environment.

A plus would be:

• Experience with AI observability platforms (MLFlow, Arize, LangSmith) or other AI background.

• Experience with writing and maintaining evals for AI systems.

• Experience with sandboxing tools (bubblewrap, e2b, daytona).

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

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