Network Operations Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies; London; On-site; NOK 951,000 - 1,521,000; Full time

Job summary

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is seeking a seasoned Network Infrastructure Engineer to join the global infrastructure team in London to manage and maintain the QRT network, data centre LAN, and cloud connectivity with IaC and automation to ensure high availability.

You will build observability tooling, define SLOs, run post-incident reviews, and collaborate with DevOps, research, and engineering to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure for low-latency trading environments.

Qualifications

• Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across Low Latency LAN, Datacentre LAN, WAN transit, and Internet/cloud connectivity.
• Expert troubleshooting of network infrastructure with vendor support collaboration.
• Development of monitoring dashboards and proactive alerting improvements.
• Post-incident reviews to identify availability and reliability improvements.
• Automation-led BAU changes across research and infrastructure teams.
• Trend analysis to detect issues and capacity concerns.
• Defining SLOs to ensure high service availability.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualization tooling.
• Release into production with high-quality review of changes.
• Opportunity to automate high-frequency tasks with cross-functional delivery.
• Awareness of industry trends in automation and cutting-edge practices.
• Cisco CCNP level knowledge or equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve network infrastructure for low-latency trading environments.
• Manage incident response and root-cause analysis with vendor support when needed.
• Develop and maintain observability dashboards and alerts.
• Lead automation projects with Infra, DevOps and Research teams.
• Define SLOs and ensure high availability of services.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and tooling for deployment automation.
• Perform trend analysis to detect capacity issues and outages.

Skills

Low Latency LAN

Datacentre LAN

WAN transit

Incident resolution

Observability stack

SLO definition

CI/CD tooling

Automation

Kibana

Grafana

Education

Cisco CCNP

Tools

Ansible

Python

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Kibana

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

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 global infrastructure team at QRT and you will be responsible for managing and maintaining the QRT Network Infrastructure and Automations for the firm. We implement a strict IAC (Infrastructure as Code) mindsight at QRT, and therefore it is crucial that any candidates must be able to demonstrate operation of complex infrastructure at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation driven mindset.

The team will be focused on maintaining the service availability, reliability, and security of the platform. Developing observability tooling, self-healing/event driven automations, and performing troubleshooting activities. Providing on-going support and operational improvements for existing network infrastructure, whilst building our capability to operate a high-performance compute datacentre.

Your present skillsets

• Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across Low Latency LAN, Datacentre LAN, WAN transit, and Internet /cloud connectivity.
• Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure and collaborating with vendor support teams when required to perform deep investigation.
• Oversight and development of monitoring dashboards, responding proactively to alerts with appropriate level of priority. Taking responsibility for continuous improvement of alerting and the overall observability stack.
• Running post incident reviews finding opportunities to improve the availability and reliability of our infrastructure offerings.
• Delivery of BAU changes through automation wherever possible, working with research and other infrastructure engineering teams in a highly collaborative manner.
• Perform trend analysis using various data sources aiming to seek out potential issues, improve correlation and finding capacity concerns.
• Defining SLOs to ensure the high availability of network services and infrastructure.
• Ability to provide considerable support of network automation and associated tooling such as CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, Ansible, Python, GitOps practices, amongst others.
• Be responsible for releasing into production environments by providing high quality reviews of merges and scheduled pushes of changes/features/capabilities.
• Initiative to find opportunities to automate high frequency tasks. Leading the effort to deliver a solution alongside Network Engineering, Infra Automation/DevOps and across functions.
• You will have good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tooling such as Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana.
• You will stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our automation and practices remains cutting-edge.
• Clear networking knowledge at Cisco CCNP level either through demonstrable experience, or verifiable qualifications.

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 are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

On-Call and out of hours work will be a future requirement of this role.