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# Linux Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Qube Research & Technologies
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk, Docker, Jenkins, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-linux-platform-engineer-qube-research-technologies-10241615

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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