Job Description

Company Profile

LSEG is home to an exciting Capital Markets business. As one of LSEG's core strengths, and with people at our centre, Capital Markets is crucial to enabling LSEGs mission. Today we are working to improve the critical systems which underpin the services that London Stock Exchange provides. We are offering a front row seat to the rise of Fintech and digitalisation of the Financial Industry.

We take pride in our teams and are an equal opportunity employer. Our colleagues' backgrounds and experiences are as varied as the solutions they provide. Flexible working opportunities, a keen sense of community, and a collective mission, makes this a hugely exciting place to work.

Unlike many organisations, most of our technology solutions are developed and delivered in-house. This internal expertise allows us to understand the diverse needs of our business and use modern methodologies to meet them. Just like our industry, we are improving and there has never been a more exciting time for you to join!

Role Profile

The role is within the Reference Data Team which sits within the Application Services Division. You will be part of a DevOps engineering team working in a pod model spread across both Equities and FX. We strive for our engineers to work within agile, self-managed teams that emphasise standard process and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. You will bring an enthusiastic “ build it you run it” mentality whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints.

You will have the opportunity to drive how we craft, build, and implement cloud solutions. It goes hand in hand that improving the environments and ensuring service availability will be a key part of this role.

Tech Profile

AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Anthos, Kubernetes, ECR, Kafka, Datadog, Moogsoft, Big Panda, Git, Bitbucket, Elastic Search, Scripting Technologies (Bash / Python / PowerShell / Groovy), Control-M, Jira, Confluence, Stack Overflow

We are looking for someone who:

• has a passion for architecting and building cloud native solutions

• has experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment

• understands and can implement Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices

• can build CI/CD pipelines orchestrating the promotion of code

• can define and implement cloud native operational requirements

• understands the importance of observability and has experience in implementing cloud alerting solutions

• has an open and collaborative attitude keeping artifacts up to date and relevant while actively promoting knowledge sharing

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

• Drive automation across development, testing and deployment processes to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

• Build, Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitLab) to streamline software delivery and improve deployment frequency.

• Integrate new DevOps tooling (Gitlab) and technologies to support the development and operational needs of the organisation.

• Champion the use of IaC principles and tools to provision and manage infrastructure (Terraform) in a repeatable and efficient manner.

• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions (Datadog, BigPanda) to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution.

• Collaborate with security teams to implement and maintain secure DevOps practises ensuring compliance with the organisation’s standards and policies (Black Duck).

• Provide incident response escalation, troubleshooting complex issues and implement preventative measures (ServiceNow, Jira)

• Contribute to cost-effective infrastructure management and resource allocation.

• Ensure comprehensive and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure, processes and configurations (Confluence, Jira)

• Keep up to date with the latest industry trends, incorporating them into continuous improvement.

Experience:

• Professional cloud qualifications or equivalent

• Jenkins - build complex pipelines using various strategies and the ability to build a shared library’s (Groovy)

• GitLab - can understand GitLab functionalities (SVC, CI/CD, RBAC, API; integrations with other systems)

• Terraform - write deployments from scratch, organise/optimise code & modules.

• Knowledge of TF wrappers (eg. Terragrunt)

• Knowledge of testing tools/frameworks for Terraform code

• GIT (ability to develop branching strategies & organise/optimise code or GIT usage)

• AWS knowledge of more services (common + serverless, PrivateLink, SNS, SQS, WAF, API GW, integrations between services, EKS, ECS)

• Basic networking skills (subnets, DNS, firewalls, basic solving: eg. Telnet, nc, check used ports)

• Linux knowledge (basic + exprience with multiple distributions, understand boot process, fix system services, cloud-init)

• Scripting (more experience with programming, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy, Go)

• LSEG Infra knowledge (LSEG AWS LZ, ways of interacting with external/central teams, LSEG dev environment)

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

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 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.

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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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

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