Kubernetes SWE

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity. From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve.  Together we’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas. As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research - designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm. Take the next step in your career. ### The role The Workspace Engineering team develops cutting-edge remote development capabilities. Hosted in Kubernetes, these solutions provide our engineers and quantitative researchers with reliable, repeatable and high-performance Linux environments. The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer with a keen interest in technologies such as Kubernetes and remote development workflows, a commitment to best practices and a drive for continuous self-learning. We’re seeking someone with a broad technical skill set, who is adaptable and excited to work across a range of engineering challenges. You should be comfortable applying modern tools and approaches to solve complex problems and eager to contribute to a fast-paced, evolving environment. Key Responsibilities of the role include: * Building stable and well-designed solutions which make it easy for customers to use our developer environments * Understanding what makes a great end user experience for our customers and building towards that * Recommending and implementing continuous improvements to platform and delivery pipelines * Understanding our platform's security requirements, and designing and building features and capabilities to protect our developer environment * Being a product evangelist, liaising with users to gather feedback and understand their workflows, providing support and working on feature requests ### Who are we looking for? The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: * A strong desire to learn and grow, and a track record of solving challenges in unfamiliar areas * Extensive experience working with Linux * Experience with Kubernetes administration in production-grade environments, including maintaining Kubernetes clusters and managing operators/CRDs * A firm understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as containers/resources, RBAC and networking, * Familiarity with automation through scripting, for example with Bash or Python * Familiarity with development practices, such as source code management and binary/dependency management using tools such as Git, GitHub and Artifactory * Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling across the full development lifecycle, using tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or ArgoCD, and applying these to GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code environments The ideal candidate would also have at least one of the following: * In-depth experience with GO development, including designing, building, debugging and optimising GO applications * Building or maintaining other remote development environments, such as Coder, GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod * Building or maintaining Linux kernel drivers and components * Use of telemetry tools and practices within a Kubernetes context, including monitoring, tracing and logging with systems such as Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafana * Working knowledge of container runtimes, in particular CRI-O, and cloud native networking, in particular Cilium * Familiarity working with and integrating virtualised desktop technologies, such as Citrix or VMWare * Experience communicating strategy and socialising change to a wide and disparate audience ### Why should you apply? * Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus * Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar * 30 days’ annual leave * 9% company pension contributions * Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance * Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance * Cycle-to-work scheme * Monthly company events _G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions._ _We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section_