Core Infrastructure Engineering Manager

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 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.

• 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

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

Experience with inventory or CMDB platforms, Terraform Enterprise, vendor management or service management frameworks

• 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 At G-Research, we are passionate about the intersection of finance, technology, and the future. We offer a dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating culture where world-beating ideas are cultivated and rewarded. We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in our collaborative working environment.