# Network Engineer at Optiverus

- Company: Optiverus
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $200K
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Skills: Network Engineering
- Apply: https://www.optiver.com/join-us/jobs/8616769002/?gh_jid=8616769002

## Description

Optiver’s industry-leading proprietary trading systems depend on reliable and scalable networks to power our trading activities on financial exchanges around the world. As a Network Engineer, your job will be to ensure Optiver has the fast connectivity and physical infrastructure to allow our traders and engineers to get market data accurately and quickly, making a direct impact to our business.
 What you’ll do: 
 Optiver’s bespoke trading infrastructure requires diverse network engineering experience. From low-latency, network automation and WAN technologies to data center and colocation design, you’ll l work on critical projects that will help us scale our trading business:
• Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and manage our network infrastructure
• Work on designing new colocations and improving connectivity in existing colocations as well as our Data Center network
• Identify, recommend and implement network system optimizations and focus on network solutions that provide fast information
• Assist with planned maintenances (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades)
• Provide technical expertise and support to a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network link together across our global data center presence
• Contribute to capacity planning and traffic flow optimization
• Help push us towards intelligent automation
• Tackle technical debt while removing complexity
 Who you are: 
• Strong network and performance monitoring skills and knowledge of network capacity planning
• Experience working acr

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