Senior VDI Platform Engineer

<p>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. &nbsp;</p> <p>We are looking for a <strong>Senior VDI Platform Engineer</strong> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is a platform engineering role focused on virtual desktop infrastructure, not a device management or modern workplace position.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Operate and improve a large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure platform used by global users</li> <li>Plan and execute platform upgrades and lifecycle changes across desktop images, agents, and infrastructure components</li> <li>Troubleshoot performance, stability, and user-experience issues using system metrics, session telemetry, and operational data</li> <li>Diagnose and resolve authentication and login-related issues involving Active Directory, group policies, certificates, and SSO integrations</li> <li>Design and implement automation and repeatable operational processes using PowerShell and API-driven tooling</li> <li>Use monitoring and operational data to drive capacity planning, tuning, and remediation decisions</li> <li>Analyse and address resource contention across compute, memory, storage, network, and GPU resources where applicable</li> <li>Work closely with infrastructure, networking, and security teams on cross-domain issues affecting the platform</li> <li>Investigate and remediate incidents related to login latency, session instability, profile behaviour, and desktop performance</li> <li>Continuously reduce manual operational effort through scripting, standardisation, and platform improvements</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <ul> <li>A senior engineer with 7+ years of experience operating virtual desktop or EUC infrastructure platforms in production environments</li> <li>Experienced troubleshooting session-based desktop environments, including login flows, authentication dependencies, and desktop performance issues</li> <li>Comfortable working across infrastructure layers including virtualization, storage, networking, identity services, and endpoint images</li> <li>Experienced in applying automation and infrastructure-as-code thinking to improve reliability and operational consistency</li> <li>Data-driven in how you troubleshoot and optimise systems, using metrics and evidence rather than assumptions</li> <li>Execution-focused, with a strong bias toward resolving root causes rather than recurring symptoms</li> <li>Calm and methodical under pressure, especially when diagnosing complex incidents affecting end users</li> <li>Clear communicator able to explain technical decisions using evidence, impact, and operational context</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you’ll get</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>In addition, you’ll receive:</p> <ul> <li>A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.</li> <li>The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.</li> <li>25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.</li> <li>Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>How to apply</strong></p> <p>Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our&nbsp;<a href="https://optiver.com/contact-eu-recruitment/">recruitment inquiry form</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Diversity statement</strong></p> <p>Optiver is committed to&nbsp;<a href="https://optiver.com/diversity-statement/?_gl=1*bh82o8*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMItNH9v-THiQMVyJZQBh1Kbw3YEAAYASABEgI0z_D_BwE">diversity and inclusion.</a></p>