Technical Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

Role Profile

LSEG's Post Trade Technology Division is looking for a Technical Lead for our Millennium Central Clearing Platform (MCCP) Environment Management / SRE Team in Malabe, Sri Lanka.

The candidate will lead the team to work closely with development, QA , operation, and security teams to design, build, automate processes, streamline workflows, reduction of toil and improve resilience & availability of environments & underlying infrastructure.

They would be required to work on morning, day or night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster and expected to work from the office covering at least 3 days per week in hybrid mode. Out-of-hours support overnight and across weekends and bank holidays may be needed.

Interest in building strong business knowledge in addition to technical skills is essential for working with business teams during investigations. They need to work closely with domain & technical experts and build understanding of the domain & underlying technologies used by the applications.

Must be self-motivating with the ability to prioritize work and should be able to learn and adapt to fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with Production/Dev/QA/BA teams for releases and oversee environment provisioning, maintenance, ensuring seamless deployment from test to production in an agile environment.
• Drive bug fixes, enhancements, and technical solutions for MCCP and London Clearing House (LCH) products, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Manage and optimize regular environment builds from GitLab pipelines, improving efficiency and automation.
• Ensure all activities are performed to ITIL standards, following LCH/LSEG policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Coordinate the release process for new releases, ensuring smooth deployment.
• Automate and maintain robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalability and performance of all related processes.
• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions including DataDog to ensure reliability and performance of applications.
• Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and small functionality enhancement requests
• Lead application fixes and ensures timely deployment of patches and improvements.
• Lead code management through GitLab/Bitbucket, ensuring clean, high-quality, and versioned source code.
• Update documentation and relevant Wikis with changes and new procedures to ensure knowledge sharing within the team.
• Maintain a strong working relationship with onshore teams, business teams and cross-functional application support teams.
• Support weekend releases and maintenance work, ensuring availability and system stability
• Take ownership of regular project-related JIRA tasks, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with project timelines.
• Mentor juniors within the offshore MCCP Environment Management team and ensure knowledge retention.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (IT, Software Engineering, or Computer Science)
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience in SRE/App support/DevOps/Software Engineering or in a similar technology-based role
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Effective communication skills in English
• Hands-on UNIX/Linux System Administration skills, with hands-on experience managing complex environments.
• Hands-on scripting (Bash/Shell scripting) with a focus on automation and efficiency.
• Hands-on Oracle Database/SQL query writing skills, with experience optimizing and troubleshooting large-scale databases.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Ansible, with proven experience building and optimizing automated workflows.
• Good understanding of the product development lifecycle, agile methodologies, scrum practices and best practices in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab), including code branching, merging, and release management.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, provide guidance on best practices and foster continuous learning.
• Exposure to Geneos, Control-M, Murex, IBM MQ, Python, DataDog, PowerShell, AWS Cloud Technologies and Jenkins will be an added advantage.

Benefits

LSEG offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, annual bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed and build an exciting career. LSEG values respect, integrity, excellence, and innovation and encourages our employees to embody those values every day!

About the London Stock Exchange Group

LSEG’s vision is to be the most trusted authority in global financial markets. This is achieved through leading the world in providing access to capital, helping customers optimise capital resources and promoting trusted and open environments and services for investment.

LSEG is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group operates through four key business divisions: Capital Markets (broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets); Post Trade (post trade and risk management services); Global Technology Services (trading platforms and capital markets software); and Information Services (real-time and reference data products).

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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.

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