Linux Infrastructure Engineer

About Man Group

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Headquartered in London, we manage $172.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com.

* As at 31 March 2025

Overview

We are establishing a substantial presence in Sofia, intended to develop a centre of excellence, fostering seamless collaboration and integrated workflows among teams, we aim to drive innovation and establish a leading edge in the industry.

 

Job Summary

As an Infrastructure Engineer here, you’ll be faced with a wide variety of challenges. You’ll be building and maintaining the infrastructure that our business relies on and interacting directly with the teams that will benefit from what we are creating.

This is an opportunity to collaborate with some of the most talented infrastructure engineers in the business, along with DevOps engineers, quantitative developers and researchers. We’re a diverse team spanning the UK and the US. We believe we get a lot of value out of working closely together and removing barriers.

We’re proud to build on and contribute to Open Source projects. It’s our belief that these let us improve our productivity and the quality of platform we provide. We value the transparency and spirit of open source, and try to live by those values here at the company. We actively contribute to open source software and encourage our coworkers to think about what we can return to the community. We help run events such as PyData London and the London Machine Learning meetup in that spirit.

We value a passion for technology and see leading edge techniques as a part of keeping the business at the forefront of its field. You’ll be doing work on HPC architectures, cloud technology, high performance storage as well as monitoring and visualisation techniques.

This is a hands-on technological role which also includes advising and guiding teams on architecture relating to our infrastructure.

 

Overview

We’re looking for people who have a broad knowledge of infrastructure technologies, and we’re interested in hearing if you bring a particular expertise into the team.

We’re a distributed team, which will require strong communication skills, and the ability to help set and keep priorities and manage time spent.

Passion for learning new tools and techniques, for improving reliability, performance and user experience in systematic ways.

Programming experience, you should feel confident reading and writing code. We don’t have any strong preferences on programming language you already know - but we primarily write Python here.

Experience with Linux and running fleets of Linux servers.

Knowledge of configuration management tools, whether that’s Chef, Puppet, Ansible or other.

 

Expectations

• We’re not expecting you to be an expert at everything we have running - we have a supportive team, and you might find yourself picking up new skills and knowledge.
• We run Linux servers, built on top of Openstack. We provision them with Terraform and configure them with Ansible.
• Applications are deployed in Docker containers, and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Data processing often takes place in Spark. The data volumes and rates are large enough to provide some exciting challenges.
• Tools are largely written in Python - and control and configure storage from NFS and S3.

 

Benefits

• Central location in the business district (overlooking the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral) with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

 

Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group
You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.

You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Headquartered in London, we manage $172.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com.

* As at 31 March 2025