Cloud Engineer Ops

London Stock Exchange; Paris; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange is seeking a Cloud Engineer Ops to design, deploy, and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure across VMware, AWS, Azure and Google environments. You will collaborate with development, operations, and partners to ensure high availability and scalable services for critical platforms.

The role requires expertise in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), scripting (Python/Bash) and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as Cloud Engineer, SRE or similar role.
• Experience with managing and maintaining cloud infrastructure in regulated or highly available environments.
• Experience with systems monitoring and capacity management.
• Experience in operating in regulated environments with security constraints (2+ years).
• Expertise in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development, operations and partner teams to ensure performance and availability.
• Automate deployment, configuration, and maintenance with IaC tools.
• Build and maintain monitoring solutions to identify and resolve performance issues.
• Lead incident management and post-incident reviews.
• Provide mentorship on reliability, automation, and on-call practices.
• Develop and improve automation to reduce manual tasks and improve efficiency.

Skills

VMware

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

SRE

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix

Windows Server

Python

Bash

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Job description

• 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
• 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
• 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

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 environmentExperience on Systems Monitoring and Capacity Management (at least 5 years)Experience on operating in a regulated environment with specific security constraints (at least 2 years)Experience on VMware technology will be a plus,Adheres to applicable risk control frameworks, policies and proceduresBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous,Experience in Linux/Unix systems, and Windows Server as well(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 cloud AWS, Azure, Google platforms, Distributed System Design (at least 5 years),