Cloud Platform 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:

This is a great opportunity for a junior hands-on DevOps Engineers or Infrastructure Cloud Engineers with proven experience in cloud computing platforms. You will be tasked with transforming business requirements into robust cloud infrastructure solutions which forms the underlying foundation for all distributed systems and applications of LSEG.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer specializing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you will participate in the implementation of our GCP-based cloud infrastructure. You will support and enhance our cloud environment, ensuring scalability, high availability, security, and cost-efficiency. This role involves close collaboration with various teams to drive cloud adoption and implement GCP standard methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize GCP resources to ensure high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts using Terraform, with configuration management using YAML and JSON.
• Implement GCP security best practices, including IAM policies, VPC design, NGFW policies.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab to automate deployment processes.
• Continuously improve testing methodologies and practices to enhance the quality of Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Use Jira for task management to track progress and manage backlogs.
• Use Confluence for documentation, team collaboration, and sharing project information.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• One or 2 years of previous experience on a similar role would be helpful.
• Good knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (Organizations, Policies, IAM, VPC, Serverless Solutions, GKE, Compute, Logging).
• Good knowledge of IaC and related technologies such as Terraform, Packer, Vault.
• Good knowledge of configuration management using YAML and JSON.
• Previous experience in working with CICD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
• Good knowledge with implementing security standards inside the CI/CD pipelines (SonarQube, Semgrep etc.).
• Some programming experience with any language (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell etc.) would be a nice to have.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker).
• Good knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

Certifications:

• GCP Associate Cloud Engineer or higher would be nice to have.

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
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

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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