Senior Linux Platform Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies Limited; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

Your future role within QRT:

The successful candidate will join the infrastructure team at QRT as a hands-on Lead within our Research Infrastructure Engineering team. This team is responsible for our cutting-edge high-performance trading and research infrastructure and for the development and maintenance across operating system platforms, software development tooling, high-performance computing, high-performance networking, and large-scale storage systems.

The candidate will work directly with our research and trading teams with a primary focus on Linux-based systems. This includes workload scheduling design and implementation, management of systems at large scale, high-performance file system design and operation, software design and life cycle (SDLC), kernel and network performance tuning for low-latency and high-throughput applications, instrumentation, and telemetry collection.

Your present skillsets:

• 10+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and platform engineering, with a proven track record of technical leadership.
• Deep knowledge of high-performance analysis, tuning, and optimization across Linux kernel tuning, hardware optimization, network performance, and storage performance.
• Ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-complexity system issues, optimizing system performance and reliability.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps tooling including Terraform/Ansible and experience with CI/CD technologies such as GitLab and Jenkins.
• Strong knowledge of Python, Golang, or similar programming and scripting languages.
• Expertise in infrastructure metric visualization using Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we offer initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.