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The ad says“Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash”
The ad says“Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash”
The ad says“Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash”
The ad says“Strong understanding of enterprise security, including vulnerability and patch management”
The ad says“Understanding of hardware provisioning and lifecycle management, including diagnostics and vendor management”
The ad says“Experience supporting bare metal and VM provisioning at scale, ideally using OpenStack and Ironic”
The ad says“Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash”
The ad says“Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis”
The ad says“Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis”
The ad says“Experience supporting bare metal and VM provisioning at scale, ideally using OpenStack and Ironic”
The ad says“Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis”
The ad says“Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash”
The ad says“Strong understanding of enterprise security, including vulnerability and patch management”
The ad says“Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis”
The ad says“Understanding of hardware provisioning and lifecycle management, including diagnostics and vendor management”
The ad says“Strong understanding of enterprise security, including vulnerability and patch management”

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 Platform Desktop Engineering team is a new team within Core Infrastructure, responsible for the platform desktop.

As Platform Desktop Engineering Manager, you will build and lead the team, taking accountability for the availability, security and evolution of the platform desktop service.

This is a hands-on management roles requiring strong technical knowledge of Linux environments. You will stay close to the build pipeline, provisioning tooling and security posture, enabling you to review technical decisions, assess risk and hold partner teams and vendors to account.

The role had a broad remit, spanning image builds, provisioning, security, monitoring and hardware. You will establish the team’s standards and priorities from the ground up, protecting engineers’ focus and making clear decisions about scope.

Working closely with Linux Engineering, Security and wider infrastructure teams, you will foster a collaborative environment where engineers are encouraged to challenge, contribute ideas and act on them.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Hiring, onboarding and developing Platform Desktop Engineers, including objectives, feedback and career development
Managing service performance, including availability, estate health, patching , provisioning and user experience
Owning the support model, including service levels, request and incident management and escalation paths
Balancing operational demands with planned engineering work and longer-term priorities
Delivering the estate roadmap across image builds, provisioning tooling, automation and hardware refreshes
Overseeing change management, communications and post-incident improvements
Defining and reporting metrics that provide visbility of service performance and estate health
Managing capacity, budget and hardware lifecycle across physical and virtual resources
Working with Linux Engineering, Security, Identity, Tech Support and other partner teams to manage dependencies and escalations
Supporting joiner, mover and leaver processes in partnership with HR

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

Experience leading an infrastructure, platform or endpoint engineering team
Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis
Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash
Experience supporting bare metal and VM provisioning at scale, ideally using OpenStack and Ironic
Strong understanding of enterprise security, including vulnerability and patch management
Sound judgement, balancing security best practice with pragmatic risk-based decisions
Understanding of hardware provisioning and lifecycle management, including diagnostics and vendor management
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence priorities across teams
Experience owning and improving production services end to end

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

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.

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