Company Profile

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 Senior 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 an SRE Azure 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 optimize 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 Azure 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

Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• Proven 5 years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on Azure Platform Landing Zones and services
• Relevant Azure certification such as Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Gitlab.
• 3 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 Azure native tooling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 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.
• Strong problem-solving skills, root cause analysis, and incident/service management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
• Sound understanding of financial institutes and markets.

Education and Professional Skills

• Relevant Professional qualifications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Engineer, maintain and optimize hybrid Azure Platform and Services, focusing on automation, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineering teams, architects, and other cross-functional teams to enhance reliability in the build and release stages for the Azure Platform and products.
• Develop and deploy automation tools and frameworks to reduce toil and improve our automation
• Guide teams in Cloud products and services, such as compute, networking, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Adhere to best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Continuously seek areas of improvement, solving technical issues, and providing innovative solutions.
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs.
• Create and maintain up-to-date comprehensive documentation for landing zone components, processes, and procedures.
• Provide a high level of customer service and critical thinking while under pressure.
• Follow and adhere to established ITSM processes and procedures (Incident, Request, Change and Problem Management)

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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