Qube Research & Technologies

Network Operations Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago

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London, Greater London, England, GBR

In-Office

Mid level

Financial Services

The Role

Manage and maintain QRT's network infrastructure and automations. Responsibilities include incident resolution, developing monitoring tools, and supporting network automation.

Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Skills Required

Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across Low Latency LAN, Datacentre LAN, WAN, and Internet/cloud connectivity.
Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure and collaborating with vendor support teams.
Oversight and development of monitoring dashboards and responding to alerts.
Running post incident reviews and finding opportunities for improvements.
Ability to provide considerable support of network automation and tooling such as CI/CD pipelines.
Good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tools.
Knowledge at Cisco CCNP level or demonstrable experience.

Qube Research & Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qube Research & Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Qube Research & Technologies.

Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Office amenities such as free meals, social events, and wellness-focused workspaces are highlighted in multiple locations. Cycle-to-work schemes and onsite classes in Europe further enhance day-to-day quality of life.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Two paid volunteer days and corporate donation matching were introduced firmwide. Some locations also cite generous annual leave allowances with options to buy additional days.
Healthcare Strength — Private medical coverage and life insurance are called out for the UK. Job listings reference health insurance in various regions, though specifics differ by office.