Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

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 $253.6 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

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* As at 30 June 2026

The Team

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You'll play a critical role in managing, stabilizing, and progressively automating the infrastructure that underpins our global trading and research operations.

Our team is distributed across London, Sofia, and Boston, and operates at significant scale — tens of thousands of cores and hundreds of terabytes of memory supporting Python-based quantitative research and trading systems. We work closely with dedicated network, storage, database, and end-user teams, owning the compute, virtualization, containerization, and operating system layers of our stack.

We are on a meaningful journey: migrating from workloads to OpenStack as our primary virtualization platform, evolving from thick VMs toward lightweight container workloads on Kubernetes, and pushing our infrastructure automation from ~75% toward full IaC coverage.

Man Group operates a hybrid working model, with this role expected in the office 3 days per week.

Role Responsibilities

- Operating and evolving our compute infrastructure across VMware and OpenStack environments, supporting an active migration between the two platforms.

- Deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems at scale - including OS provisioning, iDRAC/BMC configuration, and ensuring consistency across large fleets.

- Driving automation coverage using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual toil and progressing our IaC maturity toward full coverage.

- Contributing to the operation and growth of our Kubernetes platform, supporting a strategic shift from VM-based workloads to containerized services.