Lead Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

Our Team 

We are evolving our Reliability Engineering team to move beyond support and operations. As a Senior Engineer in Site Reliability, you will be part of a diverse and inclusive organization that has full ownership of the availability, performance, and scalability of one of the most critical shared services at LSEG.  

Main responsibilities  

We are looking for people with a passion to learn, and who bring a continuous improvement mentality to our team!  

SREs maintain Service Level Objectives for the systems they own. Constantly measuring and improving availability, latency, and overall system health is at the core of our team's purpose. 

Write automation to scale systems sustainably, prevent service issues, or when they occur, quickly recover service.  

Partner with development teams to improve system reliability, observability, and release velocity. 

Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis and resolution.  

Be a vocal advocate of strong/sound engineering practices that allow us to build, deploy, and run scalable, reliable, and performant services.  

Enablers for Cloud migration working with foundation and migration teams from the inception of the projects performing architectural reviews, operational acceptable testing and configuring Datadog dashboards and metrics. 

Be part of continuous learning and development culture. 

Minimum qualifications  

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related technical field involving software/systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 
• Experience with scripting languages such as: Shell, Python, or similar. 
• Experience in maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. 
• Hands on Experience with one of the following cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP. 
• Knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Observability tools like Datadog, Dynatrace or similar. 
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines. 
• Incident response and running blameless post-mortems. 
• Proficient in Git workflows. 

Preferred qualifications  

• Minimum 8-10 years in the industry 
• Experience on DevOps concepts and way of working  
• Experience with algorithms and data structures. 
• Understanding of identity and access management, and application security. 
• Native Azure relational databases. 

We use Datadog and BigPanda for our observability stack, Terraform for our cloud infrastructure, and EntraID as our IAM solutions but we're very open to incorporating your experience with any other tools. 

Does this sound like a challenge you'd be interested in taking on? Join us! 

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

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.

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