Infrastructure Engineer

Capstone; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global asset management firm based in London seeks a motivated technologist to enhance its investment strategies through engineering and operations. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in hybrid technology infrastructure preferably within the financial sector. The role emphasizes customer service, collaboration, and innovative problem-solving.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Robust wellness resources

Time-off and retirement benefits

Gym reimbursement and discounts

Qualifications

• 5+ years in globally distributed hybrid technology infrastructure, ideally financial sector.
• Focused on customer satisfaction through accountability and responsiveness.
• Diligent in task tracking and improving service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide exemplary customer service in a global environment.
• Deliver cutting-edge solutions to interesting problems.
• Collaborate across the firm to enhance infrastructure capabilities.

Skills

Engineering and operations experience

Service-oriented mentality

Excellent communication skills

Task tracking and documentation

Expert knowledge of Microsoft platforms

Windows systems engineering

Virtualization technologies administration

Data protection systems operations

Monitoring and alerting tools management

Process automation and scripting

IT project management knowledge

Job description

We see the world differently at Capstone Investment Advisors. You will, too.

Capstone Investment Advisors, LLC ("Capstone") is a global asset manager, dedicated to exploring alpha opportunities in derivatives and complementary strategies that persist across market cycles. With approximately $11.0 billion of AUM (as of July 1, 2025) and 326 employees, Capstone is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Amsterdam, Stamford, Los Angeles, Boston, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Milan, Texas, and Maryland. Since 2004, through strategic insight, market-leading expertise, and advanced technology, we have sought to anticipate and harness the complexities of world markets, creating unique opportunities for our clients, team, and industry.

With our sophisticated, global client base, we recognize that our success is deeply connected to real people. For that reason, we take a human approach to everything we do, focusing largely on collaborative performance. Our workflow and process are built around the belief that by sharing ideas, we achieve greater outcomes. This gives you greater access to resources, direct exposure to senior leadership, and new opportunities to experiment and innovate.

Overview:

The Infrastructure team provides foundational technology, engineering, security, and support systems that power the innovative services at the heart of Capstone’s investment strategies. We’re looking for a highly motivated technologist driven to provide exemplary customer service in a global environment. You’ll partner with professionals across the firm to deliver cutting edge solutions to interesting problems.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, possesses exceptional problem-solving skills, a collaborative mentality, and an ability to bring innovative ideas to life. The role offers great exposure to the many and varied areas of the hedge fund.

Our future colleague has these skills:

• Proven engineering and operations experience in a globally distributed hybrid technology infrastructure; 5 or more years working experience, ideally in the financial sector, centred in trading of equity, credit, and derivative products.
• Service-oriented mentality; focusing on exceptional responsiveness, accountability, timely completion of tasks, and teamwork to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Diligence in task tracking, documentation, cross-training, and information sharing to continuously improve technology service delivery.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft identity platforms (Entra ID, Active Directory), infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, NAC, Certificate Services) and Microsoft 365.
• Capability in Windows systems engineering, operations, and maintenance (Group Policy, Intune, Ivanti EPM, Neurons); key focus on lifecycle management, security and reliability.
• Competent in administration of virtualization and containerization technologies (VMware, Hyper V, Docker, Podman).
• Operations of data protection systems supporting backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery processes (Commvault, Rubrik, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery).
• Management of observability and alerting tools to ensure infrastructure performance, reliability, and security (Grafana Cloud, LogicMonitor, Elastic, OpsGenie).
• Proficient in process and task automation and scripting languages (PowerShell, Python).
• Experience in service management tools and best practices (ITIL, ITAM, ITSM) and IT Project management (Confluence, JIRA, JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow).

Bonus Skills:

• Experience architecting enterprise systems including storage, network, and computing.
• Experience in Linux administration (Red Hat).
• Proficient with multi-cloud computing platforms, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS (Google, Azure, AWS).

Benefits and Compensation Information:

Our team is our most important asset and investment. We value and respect our colleagues and their well-being inside and outside the workplace and our culture reflects this. We offer a robust and competitive benefits program to ensure the well-being of our colleagues.

Some benefits included in this role are:

• Training and development opportunities
• Robust Wellness Resources: Physical, Mental and Financial
• Time-Off, Retirement and Commuter Benefits
• Gym Reimbursement and other Discounts

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Capstone is committed to creating an inclusive environment where we welcome people of different backgrounds. Capstone considers applications for employment without regard to all applicable protected characteristics, including race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.