DevOps & Environment Lead (AWS / Cloud Platforms)

London Stock Exchange Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a DevOps & Environment Manager to lead automation, configuration, deployment, and operational excellence of end-to-end environments in our AWS-based cloud ecosystem. You will establish standards, build tooling to spin up/down environments, ensure post-deployment checks, and oversee monitoring with low noise and high fidelity.

Responsibilities include establishing environment strategy across AWS, automating setup/teardown, integrating validation into

Qualifications

• Strong experience in managing and automating cloud environments on AWS.
• Expertise in CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and SRE methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end environment automation and management for AWS environments.
• Define and enforce environment standards and IaC templates.
• Develop post-deployment validation, monitoring, and alerting frameworks.
• Mentor DevOps engineers and collaborate with Engineering, Product and Operations.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Monitoring

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

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. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People: People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. 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. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference.

Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential. We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

About FTSE Russell: FTSE Russell is a leading global provider of financial services, specializing in the creation and management of indexes, data, and analytic solutions. A subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), FTSE Russell supports investors worldwide in making informed decisions across asset classes, investment strategies, and market segments.

Its products are trusted by institutional and retail investors, asset managers, and pension funds to benchmark performance, build investment portfolios, and manage risk. With a reputation for innovation, transparency, and robust governance, FTSE Russell plays a critical role in shaping global financial markets.

Job Summary:

FTSE Russell is seeking a highly skilled DevOps & Environment Manager to lead the automation, configuration, deployment, and operational excellence of end-to-end environments in our AWS-based cloud ecosystem. You will establish standards, build the tooling and frameworks to spin up/down environments reliably, ensure integrated post-deployment checks are executed consistently, and oversee monitoring & alerting with low noise and high fidelity.

What You’ll Do

Establish environment strategy and standards across AWS. Automate environment setup, teardown, and configuration using IaC. Integrate automated post-deployment validation and health checks into CI/CD. Build monitoring and alerting with minimal false positives. Manage and mentor DevOps engineers. Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams. Ensure operational excellence and secure, scalable cloud environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end environment lifecycle automation.
• Create templates and standards for consistent environment creation.
• Build monitoring dashboards, pipelines, and alerting rules.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Ensure environments meet security and compliance standards.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation.

Tech Stack

AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Geneos, ELK/Opensearch, Python, Shell.

Experience We Value

Strong experience managing and automating cloud environments on AWS. Expertise in CI/CD and DevOps practices. Experience with monitoring, alerting, and SRE methodologies. Financial industry experience is a plus.

How We Work:

Engineering at FTSE Russell

Our engineers operate with a clear 'why' — staying aligned to strategic outcomes while putting the customer at the center of every decision.

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Build with Purpose: You understand the why behind every line of code and optimize for meaningful outcomes.
• Customer Driven: You translate complex requirements into elegant solutions that delight users.
• Technically Courageous: You step out of your comfort zone, challenge the status quo, and innovate with confidence.
• Learn and be curious: You seek feedback, explore new technologies, and stay curious.
• Grow and Uplift Others: You coach, mentor, and celebrate team wins.
• Act as Owners: You act like an owner, making thoughtful trade-offs and delivering long-term value.
• Lead with data: You trust the numbers, validate assumptions, and learn from failures.
• Dive Deep: You stay close to the details and act decisively when something’s off.
• Build responsibly, deliver incrementally: You embrace agile principles, delivering incrementally and improving through feedback.
• Collaborate to achieve: You believe the best solutions come from diverse, cross-functional teamwork.

Career Stage:

Manager 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.

Their 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.