Cloud Engineer Ops

London Stock Exchange Group; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group is seeking a Cloud Engineer Ops to design, deploy, and manage resilient cloud infrastructure. You will work across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms, implementing IaC and automation to support critical, regulated environments.

You will lead capacity planning, incident response, and system monitoring while collaborating with development teams and on-call rotations to keep services highly available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/engineering or related field.
• At least 5 years as a Cloud Engineer, SRE, or similar in regulated/highly available environments.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure for critical applications.
• Incorporate security and compliance standards with IaaS/PaaS services.
• Build tooling for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud engineering

SRE

Distributed systems design

Python/Bash scripting

Terraform/Ansible/Puppet/Chef

Docker/Kubernetes

Linux/Windows Server

VMware

Regulated environments

Monitoring & capacity management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

Job description

Role summary

Do you have a passion for technology and DevOps practices? Do you want to make a difference by developing and managing cloud infrastructure used by some of the biggest companies in the world and a critical player in the market infrastructure? We are looking for a skilled “Cloud Engineer Ops” with VMware, AWS, Azure, and Google experience to join the LCH SA Infrastructure & Cloud Team that provides technical resources to Post Trade Business Services (a division of LSEG). This role is vital in designing, deploying, and maintaining resilient, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. Collaboration with development teams, operations, and partners will be crucial in ensuring efficient performance and availability of our critical environments.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Implements, tunes, and conducts ongoing administration of infrastructure layer, including proposing application systems changes, better uses and improvements.
• Improves the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Leads support services before they launch through activities such as system design consulting, developing features of the infrastructure platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Provides mentorship to other team members on handling availability and performance of critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and on building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Maintains services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Leads sustainable and efficient incident response.
• Scales systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving evolve systems by advocating for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Writes highly optimized and accurate code for LCH SA and LSEG products and solutions.
• Proactively continues to build and apply relevant domain knowledge that may relate to workflows, data pipelines, business policies, configurations and constraints.
• Supports essential processes while ensuring high quality standards are met.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions to support our critical applications and services.
• This will incorporate security and compliance standards, with an understanding of various range of IaaS or PaaS services (compute, storage, database, security services).
• Build operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of critical infrastructure.
• Develop and improve automation tools, scripts, and frameworks to streamline administration tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce manual effort.
• Build and maintain monitoring solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues.
• Automate deployment, configuration, and maintenance processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and technologies.
• Run the platform: maintain in operational condition the infrastructure platform.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to estimate resource requirements, plan for future growth, and ensure infrastructure scalability to meet evolving business needs.
• Design and implement robust backup and recovery strategies for various services, ensuring integrity and quick recovery in case of failures or disasters.
• Participate in incident management activities, including root cause analysis, mitigation, and resolution of related incidents.
• Embed into cloud projects and on-call rotations to keep your skills sharp and stay close to the operational workflows and issues.
• Work on systems: edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.

You’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience (at least 5 years) as a Cloud Engineer, SRE or similar role, with a focus on managing and maintaining Cloud infrastructure in regulated and or highly available environment.
• Expertise in cloud AWS, Azure, Google platforms, Distributed System Design (at least 5 years),
• Expertise (at least 3 years) in scripting languages (Python, Bash), and on automation/configuration management tools (Terraform or Equivalent, Ansible, Puppet, Chef),
• Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous,
• Experience in Linux/Unix systems, and Windows Server as well(at least 5 years),
• Experience on VMware technology will be a plus,
• Experience on operating in a regulated environment with specific security constraints (at least 2 years).
• Experience on Systems Monitoring and Capacity Management (at least 5 years).
• Adheres to applicable risk control frameworks, policies and procedures.

About London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

LSEG’s vision is to be the most trusted authority in global financial markets. This is achieved through leading the world in providing access to capital, helping customers optimize capital resources and promoting trusted and open environments and services for investment. LSEG is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group operates through four key business divisions: Capital Markets (broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets); Post Trade (post trade and risk management services); Global Technology Services (trading platforms and capital markets software); and Information Services (real-time and reference data products). As a global business, LSEG relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek hardworking, qualified employees in all our operations around the world−regardless of race, colour, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. LSEG makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us to request an accommodation. 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. 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 culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shapes how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. 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. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Find out more Get to know some of our people who are pushing the boundaries of technology, finance and more around the world.

Career Stage

Senior Associate

Benefits and Support

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives