Infrastructure Technology Director

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Man Group Full time

Infrastructure Technology Director

The Platform Engineering team at Man Group is responsible for the High Performance Compute infrastructure and End-User IT. As a Technology Director, you will lead the team in building the foundational tech used to power our Research and Development, Front-Office Production Systems, and End-User devices across a multi-national organisation.

The team contains a mix of skills including Software Developers, System Administrators, and specialist Operations roles. You will be a familiar with the detail of the work and be able to provide guidance and necessary leadership to the members in their delivery.

This role will give you the opportunity to build the future infrastructure for Man's hedge funds. You will work with managers and engineers across Man at all levels, leading engineers and communicating appropriately to stakeholders managing projects to successful delivery.

Our Technology

Our technology platform consists of a mix of Windows and Mac laptops and desktops. In our data centres, our servers run a mix of Linux and Windows (physical, and virtualized in VMWare and OpenStack). Kubernetes is widely used, and all internal applications are deployed in containers.

We use Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana & Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible and Terraform for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication.

Working Here

Man Technology has a small company feel. It is open, transparent, and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to have enormous impact on the firm. We are actively engaged with the broader technology community.

We host and sponsor London's PyData and Machine Learning Meetups. We open-source some of our technology. We regularly talk at leading industry conferences and tweet about relevant technology and how we're using it.

We're fortunate enough to have a fantastic open-plan office overlooking the River Thames, and continually strive to make our environment a great place in which to work.

We offer competitive compensation, a generous holiday allowance, various health and other flexible benefits. We are also committed to continuous learning and development via coaching, mentoring, regular conference attendance, and sponsoring academic and professional qualifications.

Technology and Business Skills

We strive to hire the brightest and most highly skilled and passionate technologists.

Essential

  • Excellent distributed team management and communication skills
  • A track record of delivering complex technology projects with stakeholder interaction
  • Great technology skills
  • Proficient on Linux platforms with software development experience. Ability to interact with, and develop, APIs – ideally in Python.
  • Creativity applying technology to solve business challenges

Advantageous

  • An understanding of financial markets and instruments
  • Experience with DevOps methodology and tooling for software development

Personal Attributes

  • Strong academic record and a degree (or equivalent industrial experience) with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
  • Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with your team, quantitative researchers, traders, and senior business people alike
  • Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving
  • Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities
  • Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
  • Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

Our Culture, Values, and Benefits at Man

Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equal opportunities. At Man Group, we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business and this is embedded in our culture and values.

We offer comprehensive, firm-wide employee benefits including competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave, and long-service leave. Additional benefits are tailored to local markets and may include private medical coverage, discounted gym membership, and wellbeing programmes.

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