Adam Brinkley

Senior Systems Engineer Senior Systems Engineer About Us We’re a global alternative investment management firm focused on delivering outperformance for sophisticated clients through 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. We take a partnership approach to working with clients, building deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent. We manage a substantial global portfolio and operate across multiple offices worldwide. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting and safeguarding your personal data. We’ve developed policies and processes designed to provide for the security and integrity of your personal data, and we’re committed to processing it fairly, lawfully, and with openness and transparency. The Team We’re seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You’ll play a critical role in managing, stabilising, and progressively automating the infrastructure that underpins our global trading and research operations. Our team is distributed internationally 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, virtualisation, containerisation, and operating system layers of our stack. We’re on a meaningful journey: migrating from existing workloads to OpenStack as our primary virtualisation platform, evolving from thick VMs toward lightweight container workloads on Kubernetes, and pushing our infrastructure automation from roughly 75% toward full IaC coverage. We operate 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 containerised services. Diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure problems, often under pressure, with the creativity and judgment to find solutions when the playbook doesn’t cover the situation. Building and contributing to self-service platforms that empower hundreds of researchers, quants, and engineers across the firm. Participating in a 24/7 on-call rota (approximately one week every five weeks) covering production environments. Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools as part of your daily workflow to accelerate delivery and improve quality. Key Competencies Essential Solid, hands-on background in Linux systems administration at scale — you’re deeply comfortable with Ubuntu, RHEL, or similar distributions and understand how things work under the hood. Experience with virtualisation platforms such as VMware vSphere or OpenStack, including day-to-day operations and troubleshooting. Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools — Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent — with a genuine drive to automate repetitive and manual processes. Experience contributing to large-scale, complex infrastructure projects — such as platform migrations, major OS upgrade programmes, or infrastructure consolidations — with an understanding of the planning, risk, and coordination involved. Comfortable working in partially automated environments: able to fix things by hand when necessary while actively working to eliminate that need. Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar. Familiarity with Kubernetes — operating clusters, deploying workloads, and troubleshooting in production. Strong problem-solving instincts, especially in high-pressure or ambiguous situations. Willingness to participate in the on-call rota and take ownership during major incidents. Advantageous Exposure to OpenStack in an operational context, or experience migrating workloads between hypervisors. Knowledge of GitOps practices and tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux. Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault. Familiarity with Windows Server environments — not a core requirement, but useful given residual footprint. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar). Exposure to observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms. Experience in financial services or other regulated industries. Enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools and a track record of adopting new tooling to improve personal and team productivity. Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits You’ll thrive in a 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. You’ll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you’ll receive two annual 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.

Senior DevOps Engineer (AI Infra) Remote UK Job Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader at the heart of our engineering organisation, owning the design, delivery, and reliability of our most critical infrastructure. You’ll drive the automation and continuous improvement of our deployment pipelines, cloud and bare metal environments, and Kubernetes-based orchestration layer — ensuring our platform scales reliably to support high-performance AI and GPU workloads. You’ll set the standard for engineering excellence, partnering with Platform, SRE and Product Engineering teams to align on strategy, shape technical direction, and embed a true DevOps culture across the organisation. Championing infrastructure as code, observability, and a bias toward automation at every layer of the stack, you’ll influence design decisions and cross-team ways of working that raise the bar for how we build and operate systems at scale. What You’ll Do Design, build, and continuously optimise CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to support fast, reliable, and repeatable software delivery. Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and Ansible, ensuring infrastructure is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and consistently provisioned across dev, staging, and production. Manage and maintain hosted application environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and smooth deployment of services into production. Partner closely with Go engineers to deeply understand their development workflows and release processes, identifying and removing friction points that slow delivery. Own and continuously improve the observability stack — from instrumenting services with logging, metrics, and tracing, to building dashboards, alerts, and runbooks that enable proactive detection and faster resolution. Measure and improve developer experience and productivity. Take responsibility for the continuous delivery pipeline for build and deployment. Streamline and standardise the release process for Go services, working with engineering teams to implement versioning strategies, automated testing gates, and progressive delivery patterns such as canary or blue-green deployments. Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across the software development lifecycle, reducing the time between a commit and a production deployment without compromising quality or stability. Champion a self-service DevOps culture, enabling development teams to own their deployments and operational concerns through well-designed tooling, documentation, and guardrails. What You Bring Proven experience in DevOps engineering and best practices. Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Helm and other containerisation-related tooling. Demonstrable scripting ability in Python, Shell and Ansible. Strong knowledge of branching and deployment strategies, including the use of Git-based version control. Experience with CI/CD workflows, observability, security and automation best practices. Why Join Us? What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. Here are just some of the great things you can expect: 25 days of annual leave. A culture that emphasises results over hierarchy, process and ego: we place great emphasis on the quality, ingenuity and creativity of work. Open communication and regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and a growth mindset makes us better together. Dedicated learning time to focus on new skills, projects or interests outside your day-to-day job. Health & wellbeing support, including private medical insurance. A cycle-to-work scheme, as part of our commitment to building a sustainable business. Subscription access to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps. Participation in the company shares programme. Enhanced parental pay & leave.

Principal Developer Glasgow | Hybrid | Permanent | £67,000 + bonus + great benefits  We’re working with an established financial technology business looking for a Principal Developer to join its technical team. This is a hands-on leadership role combining software expertise, financial systems knowledge and people management. The Role You’ll play a key role in delivering and implementing financial software solutions while supporting and developing a team of developers. Your responsibilities will include: Leading, supporting and managing a team of developers Providing technical guidance, mentoring and support Acting as a technical lead across projects and overseeing build activity Reviewing and signing off solution designs Implementing and testing financial software solutions Leading peer reviews and driving development best practice Managing defect triage through acceptance testing Acting as a technical escalation point for project and software issues Ensuring delivery remains within agreed scope, timescales and budgets Managing changes through the appropriate change control process Supporting team members with objectives, development plans and career development What We're Looking For You’ll need to bring a combination of reconciliation expertise, financial sector experience, software knowledge and people leadership. Essential experience: Strong reconciliation experience Experience as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Strong commercial software experience People management / line management experience Financial services, FinTech or financial software experience MS SQL Data querying and manipulation SQL performance tuning SSRS / Power BI Experience with low-code configuration tools You should also have a strong understanding of the software development and implementation lifecycle, change control, technical delivery and project scope management.