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It's treated as critical production infrastructure, not a back-office system. You'll join an established, distributed group of Microsoft 365 Cloud Technical Leads spread across our global offices, operating a single global platform, in a hands-on role with real architectural influence: engineers here design solutions, validate them with peers, and implement them directly. Observability, continuous capability uplift, CI-driven change, and self-healing automation are central to how we keep this platform reliable at scale.\nWhat you'll do\nSet direction and design standards for our global Microsoft 365 platform across collaboration, messaging, identity, and device access\nLead arcitectural decisions end-to-end - design, peer validation, implementation - driving change from inception through global rollout and adoption, with full ownership of global deliverables\nDrive systemic simplification, reducing legacy patterns, hybrid complexity, and accidental architecture\nDefine and operate our collaboration and content platforms, including information architecture, governance, permissions, and lifecycle management\nOwn enterprise messaging architecture, including global mail flow, routing, hybrid integration, and coexistence\nArchitect identity and access foundations, covering authentication models, access control, lifecycle management, and hybrid integration\nDefine and own mobile access architecture for iOS and Android\nArchitect the Azure foundations that support Microsoft 365, identity, automation, monitoring, and remediation\nTreat observability as non-negotiable - design deep monitoring, alerting, and telemetry, using tooling that surfaces systemic risk and informs decisions\nOwn BAU operations for the platform, including incidents, degradations, change execution, and continuous improvement\nDesign, implement, and operate self-healing automation that closes the loop between detection, remediation, and prevention\nBuild and maintain production-grade automation using industry-standard tooling, including AI-assisted development where it accelerates delivery without reducing ownership\nWhat you'll get\nYou'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, 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, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.\nIn addition, you'll receive:\nThe opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries\nHighly competitive compensation package, including a global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure\n401(k) match up to 50%\nComprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage\n25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays\nExtensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more\nWho you are\n7+ years' experience as a senior Microsoft 365 engineer or architect, owning and operating mid-to-large enterprise platforms\nDeep hands-on expertise in SharePoint Online platform engineering and Exchange Online mail flow, including hybrid scenarios\nStrong command of identity and access architecture, including Entra ID / Azure AD and Entra ID Connect (Conditional Access, tenant restrictions, B2B, RBAC, enterprise apps, service principals, app proxy)\nProven track record simplifying complex hybrid environments\nStrong PowerShell engineering skills and comfort with Microsoft Graph, Azure CLI, Terraform, and GitHub-based Infrastructure-as-Code workflows\nHighly proficient with Log Analytics and KQL\nComfortable designing and operating Azure resources - policies, subscriptions, workbooks, storage accounts, VNETs, Traffic Manager\nExperience defining and owning MDM/Intune policy and configuration for iOS and Android, across both BYOD and corporate-managed settings\nComfortable debating architecture with senior peers and backing decisions with data\nA clear, trusted communicator and technical mentor who raises the bar for others\nThrives in a high-ownership, continuous-improvement environment, with demonstrated experience owning initiatives end-to-end - from conception through implementation, rollout, skills transfer, and sustained operation\nAble to autonomously run and deliver global projects across a distributed team and time zones, and drive change without heavy oversight\nExperience that helps\nTertiary qualification in Computer Science or a related field; recent (~3 years) Microsoft certification in Azure or M365\nBackground in an enterprise environment with heavy Microsoft platform adoption - Financial Services, Logistics & Transportation, Resources & Mining, Big Tech/SaaS/Cloud, or as a Managed Service Provider or Microsoft integration partner - particularly in large-user-base, campus-style environments\nPrior experience at Principal Consultant or Architect level, in presales design and engineering, or in project management\nExposure to Microsoft 365 Defender and threat protection, Purview or advanced compliance tooling, Logic Apps/Power Automate/workflow platforms, or building and maintaining AI Copilot agents\nExperience in a trading firm or other ultra-low-tolerance production environment\nWho we are\nAt Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. 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