Head of Infrastructure Job at Optiver (Sydney)

Head of Infrastructure

Optiver

Location:
Australia , Sydney

Category:
IT - Administration

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Job Description:

At Optiver we are hiring the Head of Infrastructure (APAC) — a senior engineering leader and the primary regional partner to the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure. You will lead APAC infrastructure engineering capability: setting regional priorities, validating regional architectures, and ensuring the region delivers resilient, reliable, low-latency infrastructure. This role requires both engineering pedigree and strong operational judgement. You will set regional priorities and outcomes, and you will guide, shape and assure delivery from globally managed and local teams so those outcomes are met. You will influence and validate technical designs to ensure they are fit for APAC constraints, hold teams and partners accountable for execution, and orchestrate escalations where needed. Above all, you will translate firm and APAC priorities into delivered outcomes while maintaining stakeholder confidence — making pragmatic trade-offs between latency, resilience, risk, cost and time-to-market.

Job Responsibility:

Act as the APAC Infrastructure leader: own APAC outcomes, escalations, decisions and cross-team delivery while partnering with the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure
Ensure coherent regional delivery from globally managed teams: define and run the operating cadence, set and enforce SLAs/OKRs, remove cross-team blockers, and coordinate delivery across time zones and geographies
Translate strategy into delivery: convert firm and APAC business priorities into clear infrastructure outcomes, term plans and measurable delivery commitments
Be the escalation owner: own APAC-level incident and change escalation, shape postmortems and remediation, and ensure robust assurance over change & configuration controls and site resilience
Manage the APAC operating rhythm & org leadership: set cadence, delegate effectively, hold leaders accountable, and continuously improve the region’s practices so work becomes repeatable and handover to BAU is clear
Partner with other regional leads: work with EU, US and other regional leads to converge regional processes into global ones, share best practices, highlight regional constraints, and ensure global standards and tooling are fit-for-purpose in APAC
Mentor and develop senior technical talent: coach senior engineers and engineering managers on leadership, operations and communication
promote psychological safety and an engineering culture of ownership and long-term thinking
Build and maintain durable stakeholder relationships: engage business, engineering and global counterparts
provide executive-ready communication of status, risk, decisions and asks
Take responsibility for regional talent strategy: identify leadership and performance gaps and define regional headcount and senior-hire priorities in partnership with global leads and the HRBP. Global teams will continue to own their pipelines and bench development
you will provide regional assurance, influence hiring prioritisation, and step in to recruit or accelerate capability where regional delivery requires it

Requirements:

Strong engineering pedigree: hands-on technical experience and proven architecture/engineering leadership – preferably in infrastructure engineering and/or latency-sensitive systems
Experience leading engineering functions at Head/Director level, defining technical roadmaps, establishing standards and growing engineering teams
Operational judgement: able to balance engineering quality with operational reliability and business timelines
Executive-level stakeholder skills and the ability to represent the region in global technical discussions
Experience operating in a matrix organisation and coordinating delivery from globally managed and highly distributed teams across multiple countries and timezones
A builder mindset: a record of driving standardisation, automation and turning bespoke solutions into durable engineering practices
Willingness to travel: this role requires approximately 4 weeks of travel per year across the US, Europe, and APAC

What we offer:

A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment
The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 11, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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