Lead 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:

The Market Data platform is used in LCH to manage and maintain most of the instrument market data and reference data used within the organisation. The Market Data platform is part of the shared services area so gets exposure to many business areas and instruments, and as well as being a shared service, it is a critical service for the business lines to function.

The team has recently moved towards a more Agile way of working and is adapting more core Agile principles, so the team is mostly made up of squads. The squads are typically made up of QA testing skills, QA automation development skills, software development skills, Business analyst skills, and DevOps skills. However, there are instances when squads are made up of very focused skillsets such as Cloud Engineering. There are resources that are not part of the core squad resources, which is generally the senior management.

The base product is based off Alveotech (formally Asset Control), which is a third-party application. The core application is built using the core Alveotech functionality as well as Perl, Python, shell script and Java. A scheduler is also used to drive some of the core processes, using Control-m, which is a third-party application. The application uses MQ and REST API services to integrate with the business lines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its alignment and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage

· Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible · Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

• Coordination and communication within the team
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Designing and implementing DevOps solutions on AWS
• Monitoring system performance and capacity utilization
• Communicate complex information clearly to relevant audiences.
• Take initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications, and projects.
• Build strong relationships with senior internal partners, growing network and collaborating with own team and colleagues in other domains.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• 5+ years experience working as a DevOps / Cloud Engineer (or similar)
• Experience working with Scripting languages (python, bash, go, etc.).
• Experience working with AWS and Terraform
• Experience working with Automation tools such as Gitlab CI/CD and Ansible
• Experience working in scrum methods (Agile) and Agile principles.
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts and DevOps standard methodologies
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of duties.

Desired experience and skills:

• Experience working with Packer, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working in a Market Data team.

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)
• 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

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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

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