Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal DevOps Software Engineer for LSEG’s Real Time data distribution system in the Real Time Core team. The successful candidate will combine strong technical and collaboration skills in a demanding and dynamic environment. You will work directly with your team and with groups across the organisation to ensure the best service for our client base.

You will be a member of a multi-skilled team building and maintaining components for our market leading Elektron system. We strive for our engineers to work within agile teams that emphasize standard process and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. They bring an enthusiastic attitude whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engaging with the product owner, team lead, architects and other members of the global team you'll help build world-class solutions to address our customer needs.

• Manages own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture.

• Design, implement automated CI-CD pipelines to ensure seamless software deployment.

• Develop infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to automate the provisioning and scaling of cloud resources.

• Act as the SME for one or more of the supported applications.

• Ensure that system design, workflows and processes are well-documented and aligned with compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams (developers, QA, product owners, security and operations) to implement DevOps standard methodologies.

• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality and security, you'll deliver reliable, robust solutions and you’ll also be involved in carrying out due diligence on third party technical delivery.

• Takes initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.

• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, you'll give timely status updates to the Team Lead and/or Scum Master on areas for which you are responsible.

• Through agile retrospectives and reviews, you'll analyse and adapt, finding innovative ways to enable your team work more effectively delivering on time to defined standards of quality.

• You'll need to able to work under pressure and be adept at taking problems and seeing them through to resolution with minimal supervision.

• You'll be an excellent communicator and very client focused with strong interpersonal skills.

• You'll ensure that the Knowledge Base is kept up to date with the team's knowledge and technical issues resolution.

Key Relationships:

• Primary - will be with the Development Manager, Development team, Operations Support team, Quality Engineering Teams, Architecture, SCRUM Master, Product Owner, and Business Experts assigned to projects.

• Secondary - with other LSEG staff.

Qualifications and Experience:

Must have:

• Shown experience as Principal DevOps Engineer (minimum 8 years).

• Strong proficiency with Cloud Platforms - AWS cloud architecture, and security best practices.

• Experience in working with AWS.Database, AWS API Management, ADAM Asset Studio, Amazon VPC, AWS.Compute, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch, AWS.Storage and Networking.

• Experience in Linux operating systems and strong proficiency in scripting using BASH and Python for automation.

• Shown experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, CloudWatch, Ansible.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience of working with ServiceNow, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Kafka with pro-active approach to learning about and adapting to new technologies.

• Application knowledge and experience preferably gained within a critical support environment.

• Shown ability to identify and implement process improvements and automation.

• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Able to react to and keep up with quickly changing technical events and requirements.

• Ability to quickly understand the wider impacts of changes and technical issues.

• Degree level qualification (Computing / Computer Science or related discipline).

Nice to have:

• Experience of working on Azure Cloud platform.

• Experience of working with and supporting C++, and Java applications

• Relevant certification such as AWS DevOps Engineer qualification.

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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