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# Platform Desktop Engineering Manager

- **Company:** G-Research
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Linux, Linux System Administration, Log Analysis, OpenStack, Package Management Systems, Software Troubleshooting, Bare Metal, Patch Management, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c3bed66eba233b34

## About the Role

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

 * Experience leading an infrastructure, platform or endpoint engineering team
 * Strong hands-on Linux expertise, including package management, performance troubleshooting and log analysis
 * Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation using tools such as Dagger, Packer, Jenkins or Bash
 * Experience supporting bare metal and VM provisioning at scale, ideally using OpenStack and Ironic
 * Strong understanding of enterprise security, including vulnerability and patch management
 * Sound judgement, balancing security best practice with pragmatic risk-based decisions
 * Understanding of hardware provisioning and lifecycle management, including diagnostics and vendor management
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence priorities across teams
 * Experience owning and improving production services end to end

## Description

The Platform Desktop Engineering team is a new team within Core Infrastructure, responsible for the platform desktop.

As Platform Desktop Engineering Manager, you will build and lead the team, taking accountability for the availability, security and evolution of the platform desktop service.

This is a hands-on management roles requiring strong technical knowledge of Linux environments. You will stay close to the build pipeline, provisioning tooling and security posture, enabling you to review technical decisions, assess risk and hold partner teams and vendors to account.

The role had a broad remit, spanning image builds, provisioning, security, monitoring and hardware. You will establish the team's standards and priorities from the ground up, protecting engineers' focus and making clear decisions about scope.

Working closely with Linux Engineering, Security and wider infrastructure teams, you will foster a collaborative environment where engineers are encouraged to challenge, contribute ideas and act on them., * Hiring, onboarding and developing Platform Desktop Engineers, including objectives, feedback and career development

 * Managing service performance, including availability, estate health, patching , provisioning and user experience
 * Owning the support model, including service levels, request and incident management and escalation paths
 * Balancing operational demands with planned engineering work and longer-term priorities
 * Delivering the estate roadmap across image builds, provisioning tooling, automation and hardware refreshes
 * Overseeing change management, communications and post-incident improvements
 * Defining and reporting metrics that provide visbility of service performance and estate health
 * Managing capacity, budget and hardware lifecycle across physical and virtual resources
 * Working with Linux Engineering, Security, Identity, Tech Support and other partner teams to manage dependencies and escalations
 * Supporting joiner, mover and leaver processes in partnership with HR