Developer Platforms Engineer

About Us:

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 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:

Developer Platforms Engineer is a key role within Developer Experience team, having responsibilities to build and deploy standard Development toolset as well as interface with a large community of developers to support tooling requirements for their SDLC.

The role will have potential involvement throughout project lifecycle phases - from gathering Requirements to Production deployment, and interaction with a wide variety of teams to generate and refine developer-focused resources including cloud architectures patterns, templates for CI/CD pipelines, application builds, automated testing, code scanning to production deployments.

There will also be involvement in proof-of-concept implementations, pilots and definition of Principles, Policies and Standards.

Provides a framework, functions(scripts), and templates to ensure consistent and efficient delivery automation of SDLC and infrastructure lifecycle activities, reducing human intervention, avoiding redundancy, and enabling development teams to realize the full benefits of standard tools and processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in deep-dive analysis and maturity assessment of current DevOps practices
• Identify and define Architecture Principles and how to apply them in building or re-working DevOps Solutions
• Support delivery projects from technological and logistical perspective
• Develop automation solutions for Cloud (IAC - Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (YAML) and Quality Engineering technologies
• Develop design patterns, modules, and libraries to integrate SDLC tools/processes into the CI/CD pipeline
• Provide Technical expertise in resolving DevOps engineering, coding, and architecture issues
• Work with Infrastructure, e.g., Cloud Engineering/Ops and Application Development teams to optimise/resolve DevSecOps related issues
• Participate as a major contributor to the selection/maintenance of Developer Platform tools
• Participate in tools Proof of Concept (POCs) and provide final analysis and recommendations
• Contribute to building and maintaining robust, scalable and cost optimised Developer tooling solutions
• Contribute to creating educational materials and conducting training and mentoring sessions on DevSecOps-related subjects
• Identify industry trends and ensure that these are reflected in the resources provided to development teams, working with policy and platform owners where necessary to effect change
• Act as an advocate for the development teams, working to understand and mitigate challenges and gaps with regards to all aspects of Developer Experience
• Ability to work in an Enterprise organization and be able to communicate with senior members of Dev, Infrastructure, and Architecture teams as needed.

Essential Technical Skills:

• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts (IAC) and basics of Microservices architecture
• Knowledge of Cloud Technology basics across CSPs - Amazon, Microsoft, and Google (at least one)
• Knowledge and implementation experience of DevOps, CI/CD, DevSecOps concepts
• Good level of understanding of Architecture principles, design methodologies and their applicability
• Hands-on experience of the following:
  • Creating and deploying CI/CD pipelines (GitLab / Jenkins / GitHub)
  • Configuring and running Code/Binary scans using solutions like SonarQube, Semgrep, Blackbuck, Trivy, GitLeaks Veracode, etc.
  • Configuring and using Secrets management tools like Vault and Cloud native solutions
  • Broad knowledge of SDLC Tools, specifically Build, Test and Deploy Automation tools, e.g., Maven, Gradle, Selenium, Ansible, etc.
  • Good understanding of Source code mgmt solutions like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.
  • Good understanding of Artifact and dependency mgmt solutions like JFrog, Nexus, etc.
  • Good understanding on Containerisation solutions, e.g., K8, Docker, Kaniko, etc.
  • Proficiency in at least one of the standard programming languages - Java/JavaScript, C#, Python, or similar Object-oriented programming
  • Proficiency in at least one of the standard scripting languages - Terraform, Bash, Ansible, etc.
  • Good understanding of Software engineering concepts, e.g., coding techniques (DRY principles), Trunk based development (Branching/Merging techniques), etc.
• Good understanding of Developer Desktops - both Physical and Virtual (W365) and implementation of tooling framework/solutions for Desktops
• Good understanding of the basics of Gen AI concepts and solutions - GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, Q developer.

Essential Experience:

• hands-on experience in Programming (see preferred languages above)
• hands-on experience in DevOps process/tooling across various Technologies
• hands-on experience in working at an Enterprise organisation implementing large scale, niche, end-to-end, advanced technology solutions
• hands-on experience across Cloud Services, SDLC Tools, specifically CI/CD tools - Open-Source or Commercial.

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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