2027 – Internship, Infrastructure Engineering

The role

Interns will join a team to contribute to real projects and learn from engineers, researchers, and traders. You will work on infrastructure, research infrastructure, HPC storage, network operations, DevOps, or SRE depending on the team.

What you will do

• Measure and optimise hardware performance
• Investigate Linux internals and tune systems
• Build and operate high-performance compute, networking and storage systems
• Build and operate high-performance storage infrastructure
• Investigate incidents and develop observability tooling
• Build automation to make the network more reliable and efficient
• Build and automate infrastructure, tools and workflows
• Build reliable, high-performance systems and develop tooling for deployment, monitoring, operations and incident response

Required qualifications

• Penultimate or final-year students pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in a STEM discipline, such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Networks or a related subject
• Programming or scripting in languages such as Python or Bash
• Tools such as Git, SQL and GCC
• Confidence working from the Linux command line, including familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration fundamentals
• An understanding of storage concepts such as RAID, erasure coding, file systems and networking protocols
• Knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP and Ethernet
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and PromQL
• Hands-on experimentation with Linux, such as building Linux systems on laptops or Raspberry Pis or working with custom Android installations

Nice to have

• Interest in technology explored through hobbies, personal projects, academic work or open-source contributions

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
• Selected candidates will complete a coding challenge focused on core programming and problem-solving skills
• Shortlisted candidates will take part in interviews on-site at an assessment centre or via Microsoft Teams

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating across liquid asset classes and markets worldwide.