Core Infrastructure Engineering Manager

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch via Just Eat for Business

Barista bar

30 days leave

Pension

Healthcare

Life assurance

Informal dress code

Work-life balance

Annual bonus

Job summary

G-Research, headquartered in London, builds a world-class platform to amplify research ideas and scale infrastructure for high-impact quantitative finance. You will lead the Core Infrastructure Engineering team, guiding technical direction while delivering reliable, automated services that underpin the firm’s research platform.

The role emphasizes leadership-first responsibilities with meaningful technical involvement, focusing on people development, incident management and scalable automation

Qualifications

• Leadership experience managing infrastructure or platform teams.
• Strong background in Windows and Linux infrastructure.
• Experience with CI platforms, IaC and automation.
• Ability to balance people management with technical decisions and stakeholder communication.
• Experience improving incident management, change control and on-call practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow a team of infrastructure engineers.
• Set technical direction and priorities across the portfolio.
• Drive infrastructure as code adoption and AI-driven management.
• Ensure availability, performance and operational health of core services.
• Act as escalation point for incidents and service issues.
• Balance delivery with long-term automation initiatives.
• Hire, onboard and develop new team members.
• Represent the team's roadmap to stakeholders across the business.
• Remove blockers and enable effective delivery.
• Deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.
• Improve engineering processes, documentation and standards across the team.

Skills

Team leadership

Windows & Linux

CI platforms

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Stakeholder communication

Incident management

Coaching engineers

CMDB/inventory

Terraform Enterprise

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

Jenkins

Job description

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 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
• 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