The Role
Join Qube Research & Technologies as a Platform Support Engineer to triage incidents, handle platform issues, and ensure the smooth operation of research and trading systems, collaborating with traders and engineers.
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.
You will join our Quant Dev Platform team, who oversee technical responses to infrastructure and platform issues. You will focus on triaging incidents, handling requests from the business, and ensuring the seamless daily operation of our high-performance research and trading systems.
This role collaborates with traders, quant researchers, and senior engineers - ensuring stability, reliability, and responsiveness across our technology stack. You will own the support workflow: investigating, categorizing, and resolving operational issues while escalating effectively when deeper expertise is required.
Your future role within QRT:
- Serve as the first point of contact for infrastructure and platform-related issues.
- Monitor alerts, logs and dashboards; respond promptly to incidents.
- Perform initial investigation, triage and resolution where possible.
- Escalate complex issues to the relevant senior engineers, providing clear context.
- Handle user requests (onboarding, permissions, environment setup, resource allocation).
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base for recurring issues.
- Contribute to improving monitoring, automation, and support processes.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
Your current skillset:
- Strong troubleshooting mindset with structured problem-solving.
- Solid experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals and cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and scripting (Python, Bash, etc.).
- Clear, calm communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment (financial services or hedge fund experience is a plus).
- 3+ years in a Support Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Systems Administrator, or TechOps role.
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
AWS
Bash
Cloudwatch
Datadog
Docker
Elk
Kubernetes
Linux
Prometheus
Python
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The Company
What We Do
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. We currently have multiple open positions on our website, please get in touch! Our commitments: https://www.qube-rt.com/commitments
