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About the Role
As Platform Desktop Engineering Manager, you will build and lead a new team responsible for the platform desktop service, ensuring its availability, security, and evolution. This hands-on role requires strong technical knowledge of Linux environments and involves managing the build pipeline, provisioning tooling, and security posture.
Responsibilities
- 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 visibility 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
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Linux
- Package management
- Performance troubleshooting
- Log analysis
- CI/CD pipelines
- OS image creation
- Dagger
- Packer
- Jenkins
- Bash
- OpenStack
- Ironic
- Enterprise security
- Vulnerability management
- Patch management
- Hardware provisioning
- Lifecycle management
- Diagnostics
- Vendor management
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Management
Salary/Compensations
- Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
Benefits
- Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business)
- Dedicated barista bar
- 30 days’ annual leave
- 9% company pension contributions
- Informal dress code
- Excellent work/life balance
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Life assurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Monthly company events
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section