Core Infrastructure Engineering Manager

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

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

Desirable experience:

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.

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