Senior VDI Platform Engineer

As a global market maker, Optiver trades hundreds of thousands of financial instruments on exchanges around the world. By continuously providing quotes – both bids to buy and offers to sell – we play a vital role in the healthy functioning of markets.  

We are looking for a Senior VDI Platform Engineer to improve our global, large-scale virtual desktop platform supporting users across multiple regions. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of a session-based desktop environment used in latency-sensitive workflows.

The role places strong emphasis on automation, operational repeatability, and data-driven troubleshooting. You will work on improving how the platform is operated over time, using scripting, metrics, and evidence-based analysis to resolve performance issues, reduce operational complexity, and eliminate recurring incidents.

This is a platform engineering role focused on virtual desktop infrastructure, not a device management or modern workplace position.

What you’ll do

• Operate and improve a large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure platform used by global users
• Plan and execute platform upgrades and lifecycle changes across desktop images, agents, and infrastructure components
• Troubleshoot performance, stability, and user-experience issues using system metrics, session telemetry, and operational data
• Diagnose and resolve authentication and login-related issues involving Active Directory, group policies, certificates, and SSO integrations
• Design and implement automation and repeatable operational processes using PowerShell and API-driven tooling
• Use monitoring and operational data to drive capacity planning, tuning, and remediation decisions
• Analyse and address resource contention across compute, memory, storage, network, and GPU resources where applicable
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, and security teams on cross-domain issues affecting the platform
• Investigate and remediate incidents related to login latency, session instability, profile behaviour, and desktop performance
• Continuously reduce manual operational effort through scripting, standardisation, and platform improvements

Who you are

• A senior engineer with 7+ years of experience operating virtual desktop or EUC infrastructure platforms in production environments
• Experienced troubleshooting session-based desktop environments, including login flows, authentication dependencies, and desktop performance issues
• Comfortable working across infrastructure layers including virtualization, storage, networking, identity services, and endpoint images
• Experienced in applying automation and infrastructure-as-code thinking to improve reliability and operational consistency
• Data-driven in how you troubleshoot and optimise systems, using metrics and evidence rather than assumptions
• Execution-focused, with a strong bias toward resolving root causes rather than recurring symptoms
• Calm and methodical under pressure, especially when diagnosing complex incidents affecting end users
• Clear communicator able to explain technical decisions using evidence, impact, and operational context

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

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