Senior VDI Platform Engineer

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

• 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, 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.

• 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.

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., 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.