Quant Platform Infra Engineer - Ownership & Modernisation

Selby Jennings; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Selby Jennings seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to own and modernise production systems for a quantitative research platform. You will work alongside researchers and engineers to enhance Linux-based infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform tooling in a fast-moving hedge-fund environment.

The role focuses on automation, containerisation, CI/CD, and reliability, with relocation support for suitable candidates and global collaboration opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems engineering experience (Red Hat or similar).
• Strong Python development and automation skills.
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and data pipelines.
• Ability to work independently and own critical infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving and operational mindset.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve Linux-based production infrastructure.
• Manage system reliability, performance, monitoring, security, and upgrades.
• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, applications, databases, and data pipelines.
• Operate and optimise MariaDB/MS SQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Support Airflow workflows and Python-based data processing jobs.
• Improve CI/CD processes, deployment workflows, and platform automation.
• Contribute to containerisation initiatives and platform modernisation.
• Support research environments and distributed compute capabilities.

Skills

Linux

Python

SQL

Troubleshooting

Independence

Problem-solving

Tools

Airflow

CI/CD

DevOps

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Selby Jennings seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to own and modernise production systems for a quantitative research platform. You will work alongside researchers and engineers to enhance Linux-based infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform tooling in a fast-moving hedge-fund environment.

The role focuses on automation, containerisation, CI/CD, and reliability, with relocation support for suitable candidates and global collaboration opportunities.