Senior Virtualisation & Storage Engineer

Quant Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Quant Capital seeks a Principal Virtualisation Engineer for a high‑performance trading environment in London or New York. You will own the core virtualisation and storage estate, ensuring uptime, performance and stability while shaping the platform’s next generation.

This is a senior, hands‑on role driving migrations, POC work, and automation with cross‑team collaboration. You’ll lead technical evaluations, define long‑term strategy, and maintain a production‑grade, scalable infrastructure that

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on Linux infrastructure engineering in production.
• Deep expertise in virtualization (KVM-based platforms, VMware or similar).
• Experience with large-scale compute resource management and high availability.
• Enterprise storage experience including SAN and storage protocols.
• Exposure to software-defined storage.
• Automation skills in Python or Golang.
• Ability to own complex projects and drive them independently.
• Clear communicator with engineering-led mindset.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the firm’s virtualisation and storage platforms in production.
• Maintain uptime, performance, capacity and operational stability.
• Assess new technologies and help shape long‑term platform strategy.
• Run technical evaluations and proof‑of‑concept work across infrastructure options.
• Plan and deliver storage and virtualisation migrations with minimal operational risk.
• Build automation and internal tooling to improve scalability and reduce manual support.
• Work closely with other engineering teams on platform design and integration.

Skills

Linux

Virtualisation

KVM/VMware

Performance tuning

High availability

Automation

Python

Golang

Independent ownership

Communication

Tools

SAN storage

Software-defined storage

Job description

Quant Capital seeks a Principal Virtualisation Engineer for a high‑performance trading environment in London or New York. You will own the core virtualisation and storage estate, ensuring uptime, performance and stability while shaping the platform’s next generation.

This is a senior, hands‑on role driving migrations, POC work, and automation with cross‑team collaboration. You’ll lead technical evaluations, define long‑term strategy, and maintain a production‑grade, scalable infrastructure that