Senior DevOps Engineer

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 65 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

ForexClear is LSEGs market-leading foreign exchange clearing solution for non deliverable and deliverable FX products. As the leading provider of OTC FX clearing services, ForexClear works closely with market participants to develop innovative products that meet the growing global demand for OTC FX clearing, delivering unmatched capital, margin and operational efficiencies, and enhanced risk management.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic DevOps engineer to join our team, so we can achieve our goals to improve performance and efficiency in our software delivery. An individual with a forthright attitude, comfortable challenging the status quo and is always striving to improve.

• Opportunity to join ForexClear, a rapidly growing and successful company that plays a vital role in financial services and is highly regarded in the wider organisation of the London Stock Exchange Group.

• This position is based in Bucharest, where you will join other members of the ForexClear engineering team which we are growing in this location.

• Work closely with our release manager and 50 strong engineering team to improve our tools, processes and automation in respect to packaging, deployments and releases.

• Your contribution in this highly visible role will be to improve key DevOps metrics like release frequency and deliver continuous improvements, enabling our company to scale as it grows and invests in new technologies.

• The role will evolve over time as the backlog of issues is addressed and the metrics improve. As we migrate our applications into AWS, some applications will remain on-prem, and we will be required to support a hybrid model and work closely with the DevOps team to ensure our automation adapts to meet our requirements.

• Delivery of DevOps improvements as prioritized by your product owner, helping to identify and deliver changes that reduce manual effort and time spent by the ForexClear engineers on release activities.

• Collaborate closely with another developer in the team who is application focused and will be removing technical debt and impediments to the release process alongside you, ensuring that the changes introduced are effectively integrated into the automation that we use.

• In tandem with the DevOps team define and drive a metrics based approach to work prioritization. We believe investment into our release process should be a data driven decision which you will be accountable for.

• Simplification of existing processes whilst ensuring reliability and security are integral to the work you deliver so that releases can continue and not be impacted as you introduce improvements.

• As changes are introduced you have duty of care to ensure the right level of documentation is provided and broadcast to the engineering and support teams so that they are cognisant of the improvements.

• Become a subject matter expert on our release process with the aim to become a valued point of contact that can troubleshoot issues and ensure the root causes are dealt with.

• Familiarise with our technology stack and technology strategy to understand the big picture (infrastructure, tools, applications).

• Learn about our company, people and teams and how we deliver change, what our release process looks like, what problems we face and build an understanding of where and how we can improve.

• Understand our tools and processes so that you can contribute to their improvement and maturity.

• Work with our release manager who will be the product owner of the backlog to deliver improvements.

• Collaborate closely with DevOps team to ensure changes are implemented that align across the team and wider technology.

• Review the metrics we currently have and communicate if you think there are gaps or priorities that we should be considering.

• Strong technical skills and automation experience that will enable success in the role. A broad set of experience across multiple technical languages is required.

• Proficient in scripting languages (python, bash).

• Confident and experienced with Linux based systems.

• Communication skills that enable you to collaborate with the engineering team to deliver improvements in our automation.

• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and the role that DevOps plays in accelerating change delivery.

• A firm grounding in Java development and the ability to demonstrate past experience in CICD that will help us to mature our release processes.

• Strong experience with Ansible and Jenkins.

• Experience in fixing and correcting issues around connectivity, networking and firewalls.

• Understanding of technologies relating to authentication, certificates and security so that you can solve potential issues that arise related to release activities.

• Experienced in the use of Git and management of code repositories, able to troubleshoot and solve Git related issues that developers can inadvertently cause. Be a champion of using version control correctly and safeguard the developers from unneeded complexity.

• Experience with public cloud (preferably AWS) and transferrable skills to help us with building the right tools and processes we need to succeed in our cloud migration.

• Experience with using GitLab for CICD automation.

• Experience with AWS services like EKS which will help support our cloud migration.

• Experience with database troubleshooting, profiling and query languages (SQL).

• Experience with Terraform for managing large scale estates.

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.

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