Senior Cloud 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:

We are looking for a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the Cloud Enablement Team within Cloud & Productivity Engineering. This role bridges the gap between the centralised cloud engineering function and customer application teams. You will work closely and collaborate with application teams to understand their requirements and guide them on their Cloud adoption journeys by applying methodologies, processes and standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management: Responsible for managing a Technical Enablement Squad, manage, prioritise workloads, ensure quality and LSEG standards are adopted and adhered to.

• Tooling & Automation: Responsible for driving automation by developing and maintaining cloud-based tools and automation frameworks that tackle complex problems. Automate repetitive tasks, improving the efficiency of development workflows.
• Architect & Design: Formulate designs from customer requirements to implement cloud solutions for infrastructure and application configuration. Utilise industry best practices to apply non-functional requirements, including scalability, availability and resilience.
• Development: Build, implement and optimise Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and improve deployment frequency. Participate in code reviews, contribute to the design of new features, and ensure the delivery of high quality, maintainable code.
• Patterns & Reuse: Develop and maintain individual and aggregated patterns and modules for Infrastructure as Code. Embed the ability to reuse code across the business and empower sustainable growth. Utilise industry principles and tools to provision and manage infrastructure in a repeatable and efficient manner.
• Collaboration: Work closely with application teams, developer support teams, and platform engineers to deliver the best tools and practices for development workflows. Adopt a customer driven approach.
• Documentation & Education: Create documentation, guidelines, and best practices for internal tools, processes, and workflows. Conduct training sessions for developers to improve their productivity and adoption of new tools.
• Governance: Establish and adopt company compliance requirements and regulations such as security controls and architecture frameworks.
• Testing: Implement proactive testing solutions to nurture code quality, including automated testing frameworks. Promote a strong testing culture to address issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Technology: Integrate new DevOps tooling, technologies and methodologies to support the development and operational requirements of the organisation.
• Sustainability and Finops: Refine the running cost of infrastructure designed and apply company sustainability policies where possible.
• AI: Utilise AI tools where applicable to enhance productivity, allowing for research and prototyping.
• Learning: Keep up to date with the latest technologies, methodologies, tools and industry trends, incorporating them into continuous improvement.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Experience: Over 5 years proven experience as a Cloud DevOps Engineer, maintaining delivery pipelines and environments.
• Cloud: Thorough knowledge of AWS and Azure architecture and native services, such as compute, serverless, networking, load balancing and RDS.
• Infrastructure: Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code, Terraform and Ansible. Ability to compose and organise terraform modules from the ground up. Knowledge of tagging, scaling and resource optimisation.
• Tooling and Automation: Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools such as docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills with ability to work with engineers and business stakeholders, in a fast paced and interlocking environment. Comprehensive written and spoken English required.
• Software Engineering: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab or Jenkins, and the ability to structure application requirements and configure pipelines. Should include version control and standard methodologies for code maintenance (Gitlab preferred).
• Compute: Understanding of Linux Distributions, including the boot process. Knowledge serverless technologies
• Scripting: Use of programming in Bash, PowerShell, Python.
• Architecture and Design: Experience architecting and/or designing solutions for infrastructures and applications.
• Non-Functional Requirements: Integration of NFRs, including aspects like scalability, availability, performance, security and reliability.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

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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