Lead Engineer, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

We are evolving our Cloud Site Reliability Engineering team to move beyond support and operations. As a Lead Cloud SRE Engineer, you will form part of a diverse and inclusive organization that has full ownership of the availability, performance, and scalability of one of the most impactful platforms at LSEG.

Role Profile:
In this role, you will be joining our Cloud SRE team within
Cloud & Productivity Engineering
as a
Lead Cloud SRE Engineer
.

This team focuses on applying software Engineering practices to IT operations tasks to maintain and improve the availability, scalability and reliability of our Cloud platform hosting LSEG applications.

We strive to improve automation and increase the systems' self-healing capabilities. We monitor, measure and optimise the platform's performance, pushing our capabilities forward, exceeding our customer needs. We also work alongside architects, developers, and engineers to ensure efficient enterprise scale Cloud Landing Zone platforms and products, while playing an active involvement in decision making areas such as automation, scalability, capacity, reliability, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance

Required Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree, or meaningful professional experience.
• Proven 5 years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on Cloud Platform Landing Zones and services
• Proven leadership skills with experience in mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Relevant Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Gitlab.
• 5 years demonstrable experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and repositories.
• Experience working in Agile environments, with a demonstrable experience of Agile principles, ceremonies and practices.
• Experience implementing and managing platform and product observability including dashboarding, logging, monitoring, alerting and tracing with Datadog or Cloud native tooling.
• Strong problem-solving skills, root cause analysis, and incident/service management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams.

Preferred skills:

• Proven experience deploying AWS Landing Zones in accordance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Solid working knowledge in setting up enterprise scale Azure Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, etc.
• Sound understanding of financial institutes and markets.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, engineer, maintain, and optimize hybrid Cloud Platforms and Services, focusing on automation, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead and mentor peers, providing guidance and support to ensure high performance and professional growth within the team.
• Be accountable for the team's work, ensuring high standards and successful project outcomes.
• Collaborate with Cloud Platform engineering teams, architects, and other cross-functional teams to enhance reliability in the build and release stages for the cloud platform and products.
• Develop and deploy automation tools and frameworks to reduce toil.
• Provide multi-functional teams guidance and mentorship on best-practices for Cloud products and services.
• Adhere to DevSecOps best practices, industry standards to optimize the platform release strategy.
• Continuously seek opportunities for automation and customer self-service to solve technical issues, reduce toil and providing innovative solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and activities to meet engineering and business goals.
• Create and maintain up-to-date comprehensive documentation for landing zone components, processes, and procedures.
• Foster a culture of customer excellence and continuous improvement for the SRE function.
• Follow and adhere to established ITSM processes and procedures (Incident, Request, Change and Problem Management)

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of
Integrity, Partnership
,
Excellence
and
Change
underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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