Platform engineer in market infrastructure

The successful candidate for the Stellar Senior Lead Platform Engineer/SREe, reporting to the Stellar Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG. This exciting opportunity requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivery excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.

• Design, develop and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms tracking KPI metrics and improvement.
• Be able to take ownership of the quality of the platform and act as SRE for non-production environments
• Support complex application stacks across multiple cloud environments
• Automate the deployment of Cloud based resources to ensure high availability, performance, scalability and security.
• Track and improve platform running cost and be part of the FinOps operating model
• Be part of the devops practice in developing best practices and guidance
• Enable and guide product teams through implementation of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from dev to prod in a cloud based env.
• Tread development teams as your customer while and help them in defining their processes, running proof of concepts, using best practices and selecting best-fit solutions
• Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

• Excellent understanding of CI/CD methodologies with good hands-on experience
• Solid understanding of IaC principles and good hands-on experience using Terraform to build AWS Infra.
• Extensive experience in developing/managing CI/CD pipelines preferably using Gitlab.
• Experience with Container technologies and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.
• Experience deploying apps to Kubernetes.
• Good hands on exp using config management tools such as Ansible etc.
• Experience using code analysis and security tools such as Coverity and Blackduck.
• Experience with scripting languages such as groovy, bash or python.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog etc.
• Successful Scaled Agile delivery experience.
• Ability to use wide range of Open-source tools.
• Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure
• Experience collaboration with cross-functional teams across multiple regions and timezone
• Mentoring and developing junior team members
• Experience working in highly regulated financial industries
• Experience of being an SRE/Platform engineer for cloud based trading solutions that are widely used by industry
• You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing your stakeholders’ expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with each other for the good of the
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintain respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.
• Будет плюсом: Experience working with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS (Preferred)

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