Network Operations Engineer

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 our 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

We are growing our capability to provide first class 24/7 operational support for our global network infrastructure. The successful candidate will join the Network Operations team within the global infrastructure function, responsible for managing and maintaining the QRT Network Infrastructure and Network Automation services. The team will be operating in various complex environments, including low latency trading, high performance computing, and global WAN technologies.

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 trading desk, 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

Provide considerable support of network automation and associated tooling such as CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, Ansible, Python, GitOps practices, amongst others

Responsible for releasing into production environments by providing high quality reviews of merges and scheduled pushes of changes/features/capabilities

Your present skillset

Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across:

Low Latency LAN: Multicast, BGP, PTP, FPGA, Layer 1 Switching

Datacentre HPC: VXLAN, EVPN, RoCEv2, Leaf/Spine Topology

WAN and Internet /cloud connectivity: MPLS, BGP

Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure and collaborating with vendor support teams when required to perform deep investigation

Good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tooling such as Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana

Clear networking knowledge at Cisco CCNP level either through demonstrable experience, or verifiable qualifications

On-Call and out of hours work will be a future requirement of this 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.