Identity and Access Management Engineer

Optiver’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team functions to enable and secure our employees by minimizing friction, increasing automation, and improving the user experience. While working closely with our Enterprise, Trading and Business Teams, you will help establish, automate, and build end-to-end IAM solutions. To enable our ambitious goals, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our technology remains reliable and optimised to suit our business needs.

What you’ll do:

You will build core internal IAM and user authentication processes and work closely with both technical and business oriented stakeholders across the firm. To ensure our internal user processes are optimized and secure, you will defineand implement procedures and automated processes for onboarding, offboarding, and transfers across the global enterprise environment.

Our collaborative environment means you’ll partner with HR, Compliance, Risk, and other members of Technology to ensure adherence to internal policies and meet regulatory compliance.

You will develop SDLC patterns and other automations within AWS and on-premise infrastructure to better enable Optiver IAM processes. You will act as an IAM evangelist within the firm to promote and implement IAM best practices.

No two days are the same as you will implement new solutions, solve ad-hoc technical problems, and manage data reliant systems that are crucial for security and success of all of our global business areas.

Who you are:

• 5+ years of experience developing and implementing workforce IAM solutions according to best practices
• Experience developing custom workflows, connectors, rules, and policies in IGA solutions such as the SailPoint ISC platform
• Experience with Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies such as Okta
• Experience implementing Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions
• Hands on understanding with managing and provisioning user accounts within Microsoft Active Directory and/or Entra
• Proven capabilities developing solutions with at least one scripting language (e.g. PowerShell and/or Python)
• Ability to deconstruct and communicate technical problems with non-technical groups and third parties
• Experience leading cross-organizational technical initiatives

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 unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

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. We tackle the toughest problems, challenge the status quo, and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

How to apply:

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via recruitment@optiver.com.

Kindly note that we do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

Diversity Statement:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.