Linux Platform Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies
UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Continuous Integration Python (Programming Language) Linux Kernel Linux System Administration Performance Tuning Ansible Prometheus Software Engineering High Performance Computing DevOps Tools - Open-source Grafana Gitlab
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Containerization Kubernetes Terraform Splunk Docker Jenkins Golang Programming Languages

Job description

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., * As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with our research and other infrastructure engineering teams and work in a highly collaborative manner

Requirements

  • You will have 5+ 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.

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

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.

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