Overview
The role of Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career across a variety of leading or new technologies within the Technology Architecture group reporting into the Architecture and Design Standards team! This group is responsible for infrastructure and cloud platform services required globally across LSEG and enables the business to scale application services across a hybrid multi-cloud strategy. We are embarking on an exciting transformation of our real-time market data applications onto a new advanced latency-optimised container platform and need innovative problem solvers to help us deliver this capability. The ideal candidate will be flexible and thrive in a fast paced and complicated environment. They should be a self-starter, self-motivator and possess a real desire to learn and get involved with new or emerging technologies in an environment where there is constant change and some ambiguity.
This is a technical dev-ops engineering position for someone who can dive deep, build on-premise, hybrid or cloud-optimized IT infrastructure services that will support our real time high-performance container-based workloads. The role involves elements of design, build engineering, complex migration planning and consultation to deliver business related outcomes in an agile manner. We need someone with real-life (and not theoretical) experience and a real willingness to learn or rapidly grow their skills and capabilities.
Required Skills
- Ability to present to management level in fluent business-level English.
- 3+ years of enterprise IT / network engineering experience, with a recent focus on containers and dev-ops automation.
- Some hands-on experience successfully implementing and supporting Kubernetes based platforms.
- Knowledge around automating infrastructure build and testing.
- Recent Linux experience, particularly around networking.
- Experience around monitoring / troubleshooting Linux based systems and applications.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Working knowledge of Git based pipelines and coding concepts / approaches.
- Accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment across many areas or tasks, with the ability to manage multiple activities against specific timelines.
- Experience with automation Tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Scripting.
- Test Automation (Framework Creation / Establishing a process, Infra Testing)
- Agile / CICD Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab)
As well as a proven technical background, you must be able to participate effectively in multi-functional meetings, clearly articulate sophisticated technical and capabilities, translate business requirements into technical requirements, and ultimately, into outcomes that are fit for purpose and use. Collaboration is key, as you will be helping LSEG to deliver all of the platform infrastructure build, configuration, tooling, observability, and lifecycle management activities as code.
Main Responsibilities
- Ownership of design, build engineering and development activities required to deliver global cloud-native container platform related business outputs.
- Deployment and test planning / execution for container platform capabilities and features
- Providing code or designs that show an attention to detail and becoming an advocate for quality within the team.
- Provide code reviews for other squad members.
- Providing good problem structuring and solving skills across complex multifaceted environments and able to work with either vendor or tenant teams to resolve.
- Review and research potential new products; be a champion for these projects within LSEG.
- Be comfortable working in a fluid environment where requirements and priorities may change at short notice.
- Maintain, configure, and validate your Kubernetes Platform builds / development changes across Development, Test and Live environments.
- Providing consultancy to LSEG colleagues who want to deploy their application on to the new platform and help them to onboard as a tenant.
- Speak to the platform architects / product owners, articulating the impact of any current business challenges, issues, or new feature requirements in the container platform space.
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.
