Lead, Core Infrastructure & Automation Platform

Barlowe LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual discretionary bonus

30 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Dress code (informal)

Healthcare & life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Job summary

G-Research is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager at our London HQ. You will lead a team of infrastructure engineers, define priorities, and drive automation and AI-driven infrastructure management.

This is a leadership-first role with hands-on technical involvement to guide architecture and unblock delivery. You will focus on developing engineers, maintaining service reliability, and collaborating with stakeholders to align the team roadmap with business goals.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing infrastructure or platform engineering teams.
• Strong technical background in Windows and Linux infrastructure.
• Understanding of CI platforms, infrastructure as code and automation.
• Ability to balance people management with technical decisions and stakeholder communication.
• Experience coaching and developing engineers; clear, pragmatic communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

People management

Windows

Linux

CI platforms

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Stakeholder communication

Coaching engineers

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

Job description

G-Research is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager at our London HQ. You will lead a team of infrastructure engineers, define priorities, and drive automation and AI-driven infrastructure management.

This is a leadership-first role with hands-on technical involvement to guide architecture and unblock delivery. You will focus on developing engineers, maintaining service reliability, and collaborating with stakeholders to align the team roadmap with business goals.