TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer

Description

The company is building a new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service from the ground up, as a new venture within the company.

The role reports to the Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery and works as a Senior Lead Platform Engineer / SRE.

You will help form and grow a new business, so strong delivery focus, sound logical and technical skills, a helpful attitude and a can-do mindset matter.

London Stock Exchange Group is an international market infrastructure and capital markets business founded in 1698. It runs equity, bond and derivatives markets including London Stock Exchange, MTS and Turquoise, plus AIM, a growth market for SMEs.

The group also has significant post-trade and risk management operations, including majority ownership of LCH Group, CC&G, a European settlement business and globeSettle, a CSD based in Luxembourg.

The group is a leader in indexing and analytics through FTSE Russell, and offers real-time and reference data products such as SEDOL, UnaVista and RNS.

The role is at Manager career stage.

The company operates across 65 countries with around 25,000 people and organises its culture around integrity, partnership, excellence and change.

The company is committed to sustainability and supports its customers' sustainability goals through the company Foundation, which funds charitable grants and volunteering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-based trading platform infrastructure, and track KPI metrics to drive improvements.
• Own platform quality and act as SRE for non-production environments.
• Support complex application stacks spread across several cloud environments.
• Automate cloud resource deployment to keep systems highly available, performant, scalable and secure.
• Track and reduce platform running costs as part of the FinOps operating model.
• Contribute to the DevOps practice by shaping best practices and guidance.
• Guide product teams through building deployment pipelines and moving code from dev to prod in cloud environments.
• Treat development teams as your customers: help them define processes, run proofs of concept and choose the best-fit solutions.
• Challenge and question constructively while keeping trust and respect intact and promoting one-team working.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, with solid hands-on experience.
• Solid grasp of infrastructure as code, with good hands-on experience using Terraform to build AWS infrastructure.
• Extensive experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, ideally in GitLab.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, and with deploying applications to Kubernetes.
• Good hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with code analysis and security tools such as Coverity and Blackduck.
• Experience with scripting in Groovy, Bash or Python.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Experience delivering with Scaled Agile.
• Ability to work with a wide range of open-source tools.
• Experience with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS is preferred.
• Proficiency in securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple regions and time zones.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Experience working in highly regulated financial industries.
• Experience as an SRE or platform engineer for widely used cloud-based trading solutions.
• You show a sharp focus on delivery excellence, meet commitments and manage stakeholder expectations well.
• You take responsibility and accept accountability for it.
• You work well in a team and help colleagues for the good of the group.
• You translate requirements from product, architecture and delivery into robust applications delivered on time.
• You challenge constructively while showing respect.
• You value clear team communication and have championed it before.
• You want to learn, improve and innovate.
• You hold very high standards for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart, enjoy working with varied technologies, take on challenges and adopt new technologies while keeping complexity low.

Conditions

Equal opportunity: the company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability or any other protected basis, and will make reasonable accommodations for religious practices and mental or physical disability needs.

Benefits

• Tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunities to get involved in fundraising and volunteering through the company Foundation.