Core Infrastructure Engineer/Engineering Manager

Europe, United Kingdom, London
Permanent
Job ID: 2558

Job Description


[Up to c. £250k Comp Package | Office-Led Working]


Role Overview

We’re representing a leading quantitative research and technology organisation building the engineering foundations behind large-scale financial research. Its internal platforms support highly technical users operating complex, data-intensive workloads where reliability, automation and recoverability directly affect research productivity. Two appointments are being made within Core Infrastructure Engineering. The Engineering Manager will lead the team, technical roadmap and service standards, while the Core Infrastructure Engineer will take hands-on ownership of the platforms, automation and operational improvements underpinning the wider engineering estate...


Key Responsibilities

  • Manager - Lead, coach and expand a team responsible for business-critical infrastructure platforms
  • Manager - Set technical priorities across Terraform Enterprise, Jenkins, Active Directory, inventory systems and secured administrative access
  • Balance operational commitments, incident escalation and longer-term automation or architectural improvements
  • Improve delivery standards, on-call practices, documentation, service health and stakeholder transparency
  • Own Terraform Enterprise operations including upgrades, resilience, backups, monitoring and user support
  • Develop and maintain Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux services, bastion hosts and infrastructure inventory
  • Operate and improve Jenkins infrastructure, pipelines and supporting integrations
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, patching and service lifecycle processes using code and repeatable workflows


What You’ll Bring...

  • Manager - Approximately 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, including meaningful people leadership
  • Engineer - Approximately 4+ years operating enterprise infrastructure with clear end-to-end service ownership
  • Strong practical knowledge across both Windows and Linux environments
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration automation and production CI platforms
  • PowerShell, Python or comparable scripting capability
  • Evidence of improving reliability, incident response, change control and operational engineering practices
  • Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, senior stakeholders and service consumers
  • (Preferred) Terraform Enterprise, HCL, CMDB or inventory platforms, certificate services, Kubernetes or service-management frameworks


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