# Cloud Observability Platform Engineer (Contractor)

Cloud Observability Platform Engineer - Contract Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a technology and data-driven quantitative investment manager. We build systems that directly support research, trading and engineering activity. As our cloud estate scales, observability can no longer be treated as a set of dashboards or one-off integrations. We need standard patterns for telemetry collection, storage, alerting, service ownership, onboarding and team adoption across a large, multi-account AWS estate. We already operate an established observability capability supporting our on-premises platforms. This role exists to help build the equivalent capability across our cloud estate. We are looking for engineers who have successfully built similar capabilities before and can apply those lessons here. We are looking for hands-on Cloud Observability Platform Engineers to help build the foundations for cloud observability across AWS and EKS/Kubernetes. This is a Platform Engineering role, not a dashboard-building role. What You'll Do Help design and build the standard cloud observability patterns for AWS and EKS. Build telemetry collection and distribution at scale across a large, m

- **Id**: 3801081
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qube-research-technologies-cloud-observability-platform-engineer-contractor>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-23T13:01:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T11:20:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 105
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6631
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

## Company

- **Id**: 706156
- **Name**: Qube Research & Technologies
- **Domain**: qube-rt.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qube-research-and-technologies>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 181
- **Ghost share**: 0.193
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 140
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Alertmanager** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PagerDuty** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VictoriaMetrics** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 105

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T11:28:09Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker; Cap exempt: no; Checked at: 2026-11-06T06:20:25+00:00

## Liveness

- **Score**: 48
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.793
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 105
- **Expected fill days**: 140
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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