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 are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help design, build and maintain scalable, reliable pipelines and infrastructure supporting our technology, trading platform, and market access teams. You’ll also help set standards and best practices across teams, while building self-serve tooling that improves reliability and developer productivity.

Your future role at QRT

• Design and implement development tooling and platform infrastructure to improve reliability and developer productivity
• Build, automate and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Manage environment deployments, upgrades and migrations
• Partner with software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and engineering standards and works as intended in production
• Build tools and APIs to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve user experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems and their APIs
• Improve observability and operational readiness through improvements to monitoring, alerting and runbooks

Your present skillset

• Experience operating infrastructure in hybrid environments (on-prem and AWS)
• Experience with Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS) and AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC/networking, load balancing)
• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu)
• Good knowledge of Windows & Linux scripting
• Good knowledge of Python
• Good knowledge of Git
• Working knowledge of C/C++, Make, CMake
• Experience working within a mature CI/CD highly desirable.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana; Elasticsearch, Splunk, Coralogix
• Problem solving attitude with a focus on automation
• Strong team player with great communication skills

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 to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

What Is The Role

Elastic, the Search AI company, is looking for a high-energy Enterprise Account Executive to drive net-new revenue and expansion in Taiwan. This role will be based in Hong Kong and requires occasional travels to Taiwan to expand our Enterprise customer accounts from Manufacturing, High-Tech, Government. 

What You Will Be Doing

• Drive Adoption: Fuel the adoption of Elastic’s AI-powered search solutions, Observability and Security solutions within (new) Enterprise accounts while deepening engagement with existing ones.
• Be a Trusted Advisor: Assist users and customers in harnessing the full power of search analytics to transform data into actionable insights.
• Domain & cloud acumen: Position Elastic as the Search AI platform of choice by speaking fluently about cloud economics, usage-based pricing, and modern data architectures.
•  Solve Complex Problems: Move beyond simple transactions to address the intricate data challenges our customers face.
• Champion Open Source: Articulate the value of our advanced commercial features while advocating for our Open-Source offerings.
• Identify New Use Cases: Showcase how Elastic’s solutions enable users to work more efficiently and intelligently.
• Strategic Planning: Develop comprehensive business plans leveraging community,customer, and partner ecosystems to drive significant territory growth.
• Navigate Sales Cycles: Proactively identify new opportunities and successfully manage complex sales cycles.
• Deep discovery qualification: Uncover pain, business impact, budget, and decision criteria using frameworks like MEDDPICC so you chase only the highest-confidence deals.
• Cross-functional partnership: Work hand-in-glove with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps to accelerate deals and drive exceptional customer
  outcomes.

What You Bring

• 8-10 years of sales experience, ideally in a hunter/new business role
• The Right Blend: A combination of high-level technical curiosity and the grit of a value-based seller in the Taiwan territory
• Technical & cloud fluency: Comfortable discussing a broad range of technical topics including security, observability, vector/traditional search, and cloud cost optimization.
• Proven Track Record: Success in SaaS subscription sales in Enterprise accounts, evidenced
  by overachievement.
• Value Storytelling: The ability to craft tailored narratives that link Elastic’s technical capabilities (Search, Observability, Security) to measurable business outcomes like revenue
  gain or risk mitigation is critical.
• Relationship Building: Adept at establishing credibility with both technical developers and executive leadership.
• Mutual deal strategy & forecast accuracy: Consistent, predictable and accurate sales forecasting skills. Collaborate with customers to build formal close plans and keep your CRM up to date.
• AI Mindset: Use new technologies for performance advantage and deal structuring
• Open-Source Appreciation: Enthusiasm for the Open-Source model and the community
• Language literacy: Fluent in Mandarin will be required for this role due to the focus market

Bonus Points

• Prior experience at an open-source or developer‐centric infrastructure company.
• Familiarity with observability (logs, metrics, traces) or security analytics (SIEM/XDR) use cases.

If you’re driven to build your own pipeline, master complex deal cycles, and help customers unlock the power of Search AI, we’d love to talk. Apply today!

Who We Are

Build. Scale. Sustain. 

We are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company.

• We are small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally: 5 continents, 10 countries, +500 experts from +50 nationalities across the Americas, Europe and APAC
• We are robust and resilient: 100% independent and 0 debt
• We are entrepreneurs and passionate experts: We invest in what we believe genuinely and work as a collective intelligence
• We are positive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence

About Gen-e2^TM

While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Leveraging our 16 years expertise in digital transformation, our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with a strong collaboration between IA generative and our best Talents:

• We now generate 95% of the entire product — code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design powered by GitHub Copilot.
• The quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams.
• A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation.
• A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability.
  With Gen-e2^TM, we deliver end-to-end products 2–3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence.

YOUR ROLE:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure using AWS/Azure/Openstack/Kubernetes. You will apply DevOps practices and solutions, conduct client workshops to identify challenges, develop transformation roadmaps, and deliver technical solutions. Additionally, you will coach delivery teams on DevOps best practices and approach projects with an engineering consultant mindset, providing expert guidance and strategic consulting to clients.

Working closely with project teams and business stakeholders, you'll provide technical expertise that enables innovation through both traditional development practices and AI-augmented workflows. Your outstanding interpersonal skills will help you build or be part of a high-performing engineering team that consistently exceeds expectations by effectively combining human expertise with AI capabilities.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide customers with reliable and scalable cloud solutions using AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
• Design, build, configure, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and support various CI/CD, security, and testing tools.
• Develop multi-stage CI/CD pipelines to enable faster and frequent releases to production; assist delivery teams in automating their build and deployment processes.
• Document and share knowledge on developed DevSecOps solutions.
• Conduct client workshops to identify challenges, develop transformation roadmaps, and deliver technical solutions.
• Collaborate with clients and other PALO IT teams to understand client requirements, design comprehensive end-to-end approaches, and implement DevOps solutions that meet client needs.
• Approach projects with an engineering consultant mindset, providing expert guidance and strategic consulting to clients.
• Utilize AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor to enhance development processes and improve efficiency.

YOUR PROFILE

As our company transitions into an AI-focused firm, all developers are expected to demonstrate proficiency in AI-augmented development practices. We are looking for a creative, self-motivated individual with the following qualifications and qualities:

• Proficiency in working with AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) for code generation and problem-solving.
• Understanding of prompt engineering principles for optimal AI tool interaction.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with AI tools while maintaining code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Critical thinking to validate and verify AI-generated code and solutions.
• Adaptability and willingness to continuously learn and stay updated with the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, deployment, costing, HA/DR, etc.
• Ability to coach delivery teams on DevOps principles (e.g., CI/CD, test automation, release automation) and engineering practices (e.g., TDD, BDD).
• Proficiency with public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. Strong exposure to container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AKS).
• Hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, SAM, ARM, and Bicep.
• Experience in developing and implementing processes for handling releases from development to operations, including rollback solutions.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and migrating CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines).
• Good understanding of microservice and event-driven architectures and DevSecOps practices for complex distributed systems.
• Proficiency in setting up and configuring monitoring tools (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) and security tools (SAST, DAST, etc.).
• Strong RDBMS and NoSQL skills in deploying and fine-tuning databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Elasticsearch.
• 6-10 years of experience in platform automation, applying various DevOps principles.

More About PALO IT

We’re eager to adapt to change, learn from our experiences and move to meet our planet’s urgent needs. We are continuously taking action to:

• Become a climate net-zero company 
• Deliver projects with a positive impact
• Train 100% of our workforce on impact 
• Achieve B Corp certification among all our offices across the globe 
• Continuously measure & improve employee happiness

Our clients are amongst the world's most successful companies. We innovate with both established Fortune 1000s, SMEs and start-ups who aim to make an impact, become global leaders and address the world's most complex challenges.

What We Offer

• Stimulating working environments
• Unique career path
• International mobility
• Internal R&D projects
• Knowledge sharing
• Personalized training
• Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship

For more on our team culture and benefits, check out our careers page.

To learn more about our team culture and benefits, visit our careers page. If you resonate with our values, we look forward to connecting with you!

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race or ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other legally protected status.

Information provided by applicants will be for recruitment purposes within PALO IT and only the short-listed candidates will be contacted.

For further information on our company, please visit our website: https://www.palo-it.com/en-hk/