Core Infrastructure Engineering Manager
G-Research · London
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.
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The role
The Core Infrastructure Engineering team owns and operates the foundational services that G-Research engineers rely on every day, from infrastructure automation and CI tooling to the platforms that keep the business running.
As the Infrastructure Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of infrastructure engineers, setting technical direction while ensuring the delivery of reliable, well-automated services. This is a leadership-first role with meaningful technical involvement. You will stay close to the technology to guide architectural decisions and unblock your team, while focusing most of your time on leadership, delivery and stakeholder engagement.
You will bring experience leading infrastructure or platform teams, a strong understanding of the services within your team's portfolio and a passion for developing engineers while driving operational excellence.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
Leading, developing and growing a team of infrastructure engineers
Setting technical direction and priorities across the team's service portfolio, including TFE, Active Directory, Jenkins, inventory tooling and Bastion Hosts
Driving infrastructure as code adoption and the evolution of AI-driven infrastructure management
Ensuring the availability, performance and operational health of core services
Acting as the escalation point for critical incidents and service issues
Balancing operational delivery with long-term improvements and automation initiatives
Hiring, onboarding and developing new team members
Representing the team's roadmap and capabilities to stakeholders across the business
Removing blockers, managing dependencies and enabling effective delivery
Working with stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions
Improving engineering processes, documentation and standards across the team
Who are we looking for?
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
Proven experience managing infrastructure or platform engineering teams
Strong technical background in Windows and Linux infrastructure
Understanding of CI platforms, infrastructure as code and infrastructure automation
Ability to balance people management, technical decisions and stakeholder communication
Experience improving operational processes, including incident management, change control and on-call practices
Track record of coaching and developing engineers
Clear, pragmatic communication style with ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable experience:
Experience with inventory or CMDB platforms, Terraform Enterprise, vendor management or service management frameworks
Why join us?
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
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