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Your contributions have the potential to directly enable a faster and safer innovation cycle for Optiver.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign and build deployment pipelines that improve how changes enter production, from validation through to rollout and verification, considering efficiency, risk management and safety of the process\nBuild and maintain production environment monitoring infrastructure, focusing on incident detection, operations visibility, and alerting\nDevelop tooling and automation to reduce operational friction, improve environment consistency, and increase reliability\nCollaborate with stakeholders across operations, development, and infrastructure to establish and refine feedback loops across all aspects of production management\nCollaborate with engineers in our global offices to align our production environments\nMentor junior team members and help foster the growth of the next generation of engineers\nTake operational ownership of production sub-systems\nOwn your work end-to-end: from understanding the business problem through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring\nWhat you'll get\nYou’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. 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