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Senior Linux Platform Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The role involves leading the Research Infrastructure Engineering team at QRT, focusing on Linux-based systems. Responsibilities include managing large-scale systems, optimizing kernel and network performance, and implementing workload scheduling designs. The engineer will work closely with research and trading teams, utilizing skills in DevOps tooling, programming, and infrastructure metric visualization.
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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 are responsible for our cutting-edge high-performance trading and research infrastructure and are responsible 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:

  • As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with our research and other infrastructure engineering teams and work in a highly collaborative manner
  • You will have 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 optimisation across Linux kernel tuning, hardware optimisation, network performance and storage performance
  • You will identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-complexity system issues, optimizing system performance and reliability
  • You will have deep knowledge of DevOps tooling including Terraform/Ansible and be able to demonstrate use of CI/CD technologies such as Gitlab and Jenkins
  • You will stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies, providing strategic insights to optimize our infrastructure and operations, performing POC and presenting results where applicable
  • You will have strong knowledge of Python, Golang or similar programming and scripting languages
  • You will have strong knowledge of Infrastructure metric visualisation using Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana
  • You will have expertise 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 are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Top Skills

Ansible
Docker
Gitlab
Go
Grafana
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Prometheus
Python
Splunk
Terraform

Qube Research & Technologies London, England Office

160 Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1E 5LB

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