Senior Devops Engineer

About Us

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling? Do you dream of streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and fuelling innovation? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community that's the envy of the industry.

In this role, you'll be joining our Engineering Team within Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP) as a DevOps Engineer

Developer Platforms’ mission is to:

• Enable rapid developer onboarding to LSEG developer tools, ensuring they become productive quickly to build applications on their chosen Cloud platform
• Improve Developer Experience by increasing their ability to improve cadence of delivery of new features
• Unlock Developer Capacity and enable greater Innovation by modernising tooling and processes
• Ensure that development on the integrated platform is both secure and compliant by design

Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• DevOps Principles including CI/CD
• Developer Tools: GitLab, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes
• IaC Tools - Terraform
• General understanding of Databases
• Proficiency with Cloud services suc as AWS, Azure
• PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana)
• Ability to deploy, manage and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure
• Previous experience in a Project delivery, Coordination or Support role
• Previous experience of Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, and / or Emerging Technology and Governance.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Hands-On experience of working on Windows/ Linux Servers. Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP). 
• Managing incidents, change requests, service requests and driving TRT (Technical Recovery Team) calls. 
• Strong troubleshooting skills on these platforms 
• Minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable. 
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment. 
• Ability to communicate effectively in English with all levels of staff, both orally and written. 
• Ability to manage own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision. 
• Highly motivated, self-directed individual with a positive & pro-active attitude to work. 
• Customer and service focused, with determination to meet their needs and expectations. 
• Be driven and committed to the goals and objectives of the team and organization. 
• Second line point of escalation in event of a major incident

Key Competencies

• Deep understanding of Cloud platforms and their services
• Proficiency in configuration management and automation tools
• Analyses infrastructure requirements and designs the architecture for central or distributed processing to meet user requirements.
• Creates, applies and implements technologies to deliver and produce services with minimal human intervention, to improve the efficiency, reliability and speed tasks.
• Ability to identify bottlenecks and implement efficient solutions
• Develops, tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures; demonstrates creativity and innovation using available software development tools and following design requirements.
• Creates and maintains documentation to describe the system and its parts, including requirements documents, design decisions, architecture descriptions, program source code and support documentation.
• Possesses depth of technical expertise, knowledge of technologies and design, development and implementation of technologies.
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems and establish solutions through different methods.
• Partners with clients and resolves issues by diagnosing problems, determining possible resolutions and implementing effective solutions​​
• Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem.
• Interacts well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks.
• Ensures a product/service meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives to achieve desired level of quality

Education and Professional Skills

• Curious about new technologies and tools, creative thinking and initiative taking.
• Solid English reading/writing capability required.
• Strong communication & collaboration skills.
• Commitment to DevOps culture
• Familiarity with Agile principles including any hand on experience

Detailed Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of software development lifecycles to design, produce and guide the development of complex software solutions, ensuring alignments with requirements.
• Develops knowledge and understanding of technologies in LSEG and utilises these in own scope of work and others as well as to create solutions
• Design, implement and maintain scalable, resilient and secure cloud infrastructure
• Automate build, tests and deployment processes to enhance efficiency and reliability
• Implement monitoring solutions to ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure
• Implement and maintain security best practices for cloud infrastructure, applications and CI/CD pipelines
• Handles own workload and promotes an open and inclusive culture
• Builds knowledge of software development and utilises this knowledge within work
• Ensure consistency and reliability of environments across development, staging and production
• Completes the delivery of given tasks with some guidance and oversight
• Builds strong relationships with their team and colleagues, collaborating closely with team
• Communicates clearly and in a timely manner, keeping clear lines of communication open to ensure full understanding of information and tasks and asking questions where needed
• Takes interest to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.
• Analyse business system requirements to identify risks that enables improving resiliency of new / updated technology solutions.
• Must interact with global teams in time zones spanning UK, US, APAC areas. 
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement. 
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews. 
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. 
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. 
• Build a CI/CD pipeline and maintain the pipeline for Software Delivery.  
• Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure the patching are up to date.  
• Co-ordinate and work with Devops Capability team to perform the Disaster recovery for the applications.  
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs. 
• To ensure knowledge Articles of all supported systems is continually updated. 
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure. 
• To follow and adhere to established Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management procedures. 

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

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.