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DevOps Engineer
What you’ll do
- Design, implement, and improve reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
- Support and guide engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
- Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
- Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
- Strong Kubernetes experience, with a solid understanding of containers and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with scripting and automation capability.
- Good understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
- Hands-on experience in one or more major cloud platforms, with exposure to AWS, GCP, or OCI.
- Monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
- Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
- Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
- Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
- Experience managing and supporting Elasticsearch in production is beneficial.
Kafka
MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
Redis
Networking
- Additional Premium Health insurance
- Life Insurance
- Food vouchers equal to 70 Euro per month
- Holiday: 25 days vacation and 4 Wellness day per year
- Flexible benefits (Re:benefits)
- Full Calm subscription
- 24/7 Employment Assistance Program
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Staff DevOps Engineer
What you’ll do
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
- Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
- Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
- Strong Kubernetes experience at scale, with deep understanding of containers and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Strong programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with effective scripting and automation capability.
- Strong understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
- Significant hands-on experience in at least one major cloud platform, with broad exposure across AWS, GCP, or OCI.
- Strong monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
- Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
- Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
- Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
- Experience managing and scaling Elasticsearch in production is strongly preferred.
Preferred skills
- Kafka
- MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Networking
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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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Team/Role
The Fund Administration team supports the operational governance of Man's 300+ fund entities across several focused sub-teams. Core activities include fund financial statements production oversight, service provider management and governance, fund entity closures/liquidations, and oversight of third-party transfer agency activities.
Based in our Sofia office, this role offers structured training and mentorship, developing a comprehensive understanding of fund operations, governance, and operating frameworks. The role requires close collaboration with international colleagues, global stakeholders, and external service providers; a high level of spoken and written English is therefore essential.
Responsibilities
Your role will be dynamic, providing support across various sub-functions within the broader team. Responsibilities will broadly cover work on some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas:
Service Provider Management (SPM)
- Governance & Oversight Support: Provide administrative and analytical support to the team's broader governance and oversight activities, including service reviews, due diligence exercises, and performance monitoring across fund service providers.
- New Business & Change Management: Assist senior team members in managing the onboarding of new business and change initiatives with service providers, helping to ensure smooth transitions when new products are launched.
- Commercial Oversight: Support the commercial oversight function by completing administration fee reconciliations and verifying that fees are accurately reflected in systems in line with contractual terms. Assist in preparing fee analysis and flag discrepancies for resolution.
Fund Liquidations
- End-to-End Closure: Support the end-to-end fund closure and liquidation process, helping manage fund entities’ passage from the final Net Asset Value (NAV) through to strike-off or liquidator appointment.
- Asset Distributions: Support the coordination of final asset distributions to investors. This includes analysing accruals and reserves to be retained, and working with administrators and transfer agents to ensure the accurate and timely payment of liquidating distributions.
- Process Improvement: Help streamline and standardise liquidation processes across all fund structures, contributing to efforts to consolidate workflows into a single, structured approach.
Operations Business Management
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Support Man Group Operations’ departmental budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Reporting & MI: Assist in the production of regular and ad hoc internal reports and management information (MI) for senior management and committees. This includes data gathering, tracking of deliverables, formatting, and the escalation of issues.
- Class Actions: Support the operation of the class actions process, working with claims agents to gather and analyse data that facilitates business decisions on claims participation.
Client Operations (COPS) & Fund Financial Reporting (FFR) Support
- Provide planned and ad-hoc analytical and administrative support to both the Client Operations and Fund Financial Reporting teams, assisting with reporting cycles, tracking deliverables, and general cross-team initiatives as required.
Skills & Competencies
- Language Skills: Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills are mandatory to engage confidently with international stakeholders at all levels.
- Educational Background: A strong academic background, holding a degree in a numerate discipline such as, financial, accounting, economics, or business.
- Relevant Experience: This role is suited to a recent graduate or someone early in their career. Some prior exposure to operations, accounting, or financial services is advantageous but not essential.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Microsoft Excel. Familiarity with Power BI or SharePoint is a plus.
- Attributes: High attention to detail and strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Team Orientation: A proactive, collaborative team player who learns quickly, applies new concepts well in a fast-paced environment, and is highly motivated to build a career in the financial industry.
Why Man Group
- Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance
- Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities
- Hybrid working model
- Generous parental leave
- Opportunities for professional development
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.
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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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Team
This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy, and we are constantly evolving to stay ahead. Our culture embraces change and innovation, with engineering at the heart of our operating platform.
We are looking for a skilled C# Engineer to work within one of our Risk Engineering teams. You will work alongside Investment Risk Managers and other Engineers to deliver solutions that enable daily risk analysis and the continuous improvement of the Man Risk Platform. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.
A great chance to collaborate, and learn alongside, highly skilled engineers whilst building up core investment risk and data engineering knowledge. New joiners will get the chance to work on the latest and best technologies for the challenges ahead.
Role Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end delivery process — from understanding the problem, designing and developing a solution, and delivering value in production
- Participate in the planning, design, and delivery of longer-term projects alongside senior engineers
- Develop and maintain core tools and services for risk data onboarding, analysis, and quality management at scale
- Collaborate with Risk Officers and other Engineering teams to deliver solutions for Investment Risk across Man Group
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing amongst peers
- Continuously improve production components — reducing technical debt, increasing release quality, and improving resource utilisation
- Support production systems and BAU requests, contributing to the team’s support rota
Key Competencies
Required
- Strong programming experience in C#/.NET
- Working knowledge of database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, MongoDB, ClickHouse)
- Familiarity with Linux environments and comfortable working across both Linux and Windows platforms
- Strong delivery-focused approach, ensuring business value is being met
- A proponent of collaborative software engineering practices: code review, unit testing, continuous integration, and refactoring
- Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflow
- Confident communicator — able to articulate ideas clearly and deal constructively with differing views
- A genuine willingness to learn new technologies, programming languages, and domain knowledge
Advantageous but not required
- Exposure to Python and its scientific ecosystem (numpy, pandas, scipy)
- Experience with data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka)
- Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow)
- Experience with DevOps tooling (CI/CD, Bitbucket, Jenkins/TeamCity)
- Prior experience with financial market data or alternative data
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities
- Hybrid working model
- Generous parental leave
- Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group
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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Team
This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy, and we are constantly evolving to stay ahead. Our culture embraces change and innovation, with engineering at the heart of our operating platform.
We are seeking a Senior C# Engineer to join one of our Risk Engineering teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who sets multi-year technical strategy and delivers it through direct implementation and broad technical leadership across the Man Risk Platform. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.
A great chance to collaborate, and learn alongside, highly skilled engineers whilst building up core investment risk and data engineering knowledge. New joiners will get the chance to work on the latest and best technologies for the challenges ahead.
Role Responsibilities
- Set and drive multi-year technical strategy for significant areas of the Risk Engineering platform, aligning with business goals
- Lead the design and architecture of complex, cross-team systems — making decisions that minimise the cost of future change
- Deliver high-impact projects end-to-end, from architecture through to production deployment and operational excellence
- Champion the software products of the Risk Engineering team and drive technical planning and project management
- Champion engineering best practices across multiple teams, including CI/CD, automated testing, and scalable design patterns
- Conduct code reviews and provide deep technical guidance to engineers across the function
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis across systems
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
- Contribute to the evolution of our engineering culture and platform strategy
Key Competencies
Required
- Extensive professional experience in C#/.NET with a track record of delivering complex, cross-team technical projects
- Deep understanding of system architecture and distributed systems design
- Proven experience shaping technical strategy — making sound technical choices in ambiguous situations and driving alignment across teams
- Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL Server, ClickHouse, MongoDB) including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning at scale
- Experience with data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka) in production environments
- Embracing agentic engineering — ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and drive adoption across the team
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent
- Strong advocate for collaborative development practices and continuous improvement
Advantageous but not required
- Experience with Python and its scientific ecosystem (numpy, pandas, scipy)
- Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow)
- Experience with large-scale data platforms and data engineering at multi-terabyte scale
- Familiarity with financial market data, risk management, or quantitative systems development
- Track record of contributing to engineering culture — tech talks, open-source, or conference presentations
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group
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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Role
We’re seeking Python Engineers to join various teams across our technology organisation, working on diverse challenges spanning systematic trading, quantitative research, a petabyte-scale data platform, and AI solutions.
The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn alongside highly skilled engineers whilst developing core technical and financial services knowledge. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and systems that power critical areas of Man Group’s business.
Role Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that support quantitative research and trading infrastructure
- Develop distributed compute applications, optmise performance, and implement monitoring and observability tooling to ensure system reliability
- Build high-performance data pipelines for processing large-scale financial datasets using timeseries, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Partner with engineers, researchers, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions that integrate with Man Group’s technology estate
- Participate in production support rotations and contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across the team
Our Technology
You’ll work in a modern, Linux-based infrastructure where Python is the primary development language, utilising the full scientific stack including pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. A key component of our data infrastructure is ArcticDB (https://arcticdb.io/), our internally developed DataFrame database that you’ll use extensively. We maintain a dynamic technology landscape, continuously evaluating and adopting new tools and libraries that enhance our capabilities. man.com/technology
Key Competencies
Essential
- Minimum 3 years professional software development experience, primarily using Python
- Strong academic record with coursework focused on mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Science
- Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment
- Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git
- Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB
- Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
- Ability to work independently and gather requirements from stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Deep understanding of the Python scientific stack (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn)
- Familiarity with distributed systems and orchestration
- Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Experience mentoring junior team members and managing projects
Why Man Group?
- Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance
- Collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and investment professionals
- Receive on-the-job training to develop and succeed at the firm
- Entrepreneurial, innovation-driven culture
- Small, agile teams with high autonomy
- Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities
- Hybrid working model
- Generous parental leave
- Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group
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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Role
We’re seeking Senior Python Engineers to join various teams across our technology organisation, working on diverse challenges spanning systematic trading, quantitative research, a petabyte-scale data platform, and AI solutions.
The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn alongside highly skilled engineers whilst developing core technical and financial services knowledge. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and systems that power critical areas of Man Group’s business.
Role Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that support quantitative research and trading infrastructure
- Develop distributed compute applications, optmise performance, and implement monitoring and observability tooling to ensure system reliability
- Build high-performance data pipelines for processing large-scale financial datasets using timeseries, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Partner with engineers, researchers, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions that integrate with Man Group’s technology estate
- Participate in production support rotations and contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across the team
Our Technology
You’ll work in a modern, Linux-based infrastructure where Python is the primary development language, utilising the full scientific stack including pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. A key component of our data infrastructure is ArcticDB (https://arcticdb.io/), our internally developed DataFrame database that you’ll use extensively. We maintain a dynamic technology landscape, continuously evaluating and adopting new tools and libraries that enhance our capabilities. man.com/technology
Key Competencies
Essential
- Minimum 3 years professional software development experience, primarily using Python
- Strong academic record with coursework focused on mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Science
- Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment
- Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git
- Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB
- Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
- Ability to work independently and gather requirements from stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Deep understanding of the Python scientific stack (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn)
- Familiarity with distributed systems and orchestration
- Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Experience mentoring junior team members and managing projects
Why Man Group?
- Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance
- Collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and investment professionals
- Receive on-the-job training to develop and succeed at the firm
- Entrepreneurial, innovation-driven culture
- Small, agile teams with high autonomy
- Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities
- Hybrid working model
- Generous parental leave
- Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group
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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Team
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining the automation frameworks that underpin our infrastructure operations. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies at scale, supporting our global trading and research operations.
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions, configuration management, infrastructure orchestration platforms, and monitoring systems that enable our engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable services. You’ll work closely with the entirety of our infrastructure organization, development teams, and other platform teams to drive automation initiatives that help us further provide platforms that drive our delivery. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.
Man Group runs a hybrid working model where we aim for this individual to be in the office 3 days per week.
Role Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining infrastructure automation platforms at scale that manage tens of thousands of cores and hundreds of terabytes of memory supporting our python-based quantitative research and trading systems.
- Designing infrastructure-as-code and configuration management solutions using tools like Terraform and Ansible to provision and manage our on-premises resources.
- Operating and optimising Kubernetes clusters running production workloads across multiple environments.
- Creating self-service systems-centric platforms that empower hundreds of users across Man Group.
- Working with diverse operating systems at scale, including Ubuntu and Windows Server environments.
- Collaborating with business stakeholders in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where infrastructure directly impacts organisational outcomes.
Key Competencies
Essential
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
- Proven experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring practices, including experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to work confidently across both Unix based systems (Ubuntu, RHEL, or similar distributions) and Windows environments.
- Experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Powershell, Bash, or Go.
- Understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools like Jenkins or Github Actions.
- Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, security best practices, and infrastructure architecture patterns.
- Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI -assisted development tools as part of daily workflow.
Advantageous
- Experience with container technologies beyond Kubernetes (Docker, container, etc).
- Knowledge of GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Experience with security and secrets management practices using Hashi Corp Vault.
- Understanding of storage systems and how they integrate with modern systems architecture.
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
- Self-organised with the ability to prioritise and effectively manage time across multiple projects.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in technical communities is a plus.
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.
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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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Role
Join our high-performing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the technology powering Man Group’s hedge funds. You’ll have the autonomy, tools, and support to innovate and shape the future of our platform. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, gain mentorship from senior leaders, and develop a deep understanding of both technology and the business.
As an SRE, you’ll take ownership of service reliability and deliver solutions that make a real impact. Your initial focus will include leveraging AI to accelerate incident diagnosis and resolution, improving observability, capacity planning, and automation. Over time, you’ll work across our entire infrastructure stack, operating at scale and driving continuous improvement.
Role Responsibilities
- Ensure reliability and performance of critical systems across global infrastructure through proactive monitoring and rapid incident response.
- Design and implement observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Loki to provide deep insights into system health.
- Automate operational tasks and build self-service capabilities to eliminate toil and improve efficiency.
- Develop and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide reliability improvements and inform engineering priorities.
- Participate in incident response efforts, blameless post-mortems, and implement preventive measures to reduce recurrence.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system design, deployment practices, and operational excellence.
- Operate at scale, managing petabyte-level storage, large CPU/GPU deployments, and high-throughput distributed systems.
- Contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning, ensuring systems meet business demands.
- Manage multiple ELK clusters hosting hundreds of terabytes of logs, telemetry, and APM data.
Key competencies
Required
- Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability best practices.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or similar).
- Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, PowerShell).
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems, with the ability to diagnose complex production issues under pressure.
- Experience with incident management, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- A proactive mindset and ability to take ownership of reliability initiatives.
Advantageous
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows (Git, Jenkins, TeamCity).
- Administration of Linux and Windows systems and exposure to cloud technologies (AWS/Azure).
- Understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, and distributed architectures.
- Knowledge of AI/LLM concepts (context windows, prompt tuning, MCP servers).
- Interest in FinOps principles, desire to understand the true cost of our decisions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group
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 $227.6 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 December 2025
The Team
We are seeking an experienced System Engineer to join our End User Engineering team. You’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining the automation frameworks that underpin our End User infrastructure operations. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies at scale, supporting our End User platforms.
You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.
Role Responsibilities
As an System Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions, configuration management, monitoring systems, whilst also supporting business-as-usual activities.
You’ll work closely with the entirety of our infrastructure organization, and other platform teams to drive automation initiatives that help us further provide platforms that drive our delivery. The role is subject to on-call rotation.
Key Competencies
Required
- Experience supporting End User platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Slack.
- Exposure to identity management and associated technologies (Active Directory, Entra ID).
- Experience supporting End User clients such as Windows, MacOS, and mobile devices.
- Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, PowerShell).
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems, with the ability to diagnose complex production issues under pressure.
- Awareness of security best practices, and infrastructure architecture patterns.
- Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI -assisted development tools as part of daily workflow
Advantageous
- Experience with device management, including Intune and Jamf
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or similar).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows (Git, Jenkins, TeamCity).
- Knowledge of AI/LLM concepts (context windows, prompt tuning, MCP servers).
- Self-organised with the ability to prioritise and effectively manage time across multiple projects.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Benefits
- Modern office located in the OfficeX campus 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Man Group