Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer | London, UK

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Senior Engineer in Site Reliability to enhance system reliability and performance. The successful candidate will maintain Service Level Objectives, implement automation for scalability, and collaborate across teams to improve system observability. With a strong focus on professional growth, this role offers an opportunity to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement Planning

Paid Volunteering Days

Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years in the industry preferred.
• Experience with Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Service Level Objectives for the systems owned.
• Write automation to scale systems and quickly recover service.
• Participate in on-call rotations and root cause analysis.

Skills

Object Oriented Programming

Service Level Objectives

Observability Practices

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

BigPanda

EntraID

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 shape 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!!

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.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

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.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related technical field involving software/systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Object Oriented programming languages such as: Java, C#, Python, or Go.
• Experience with Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Hands on Experience with one of the following cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Preferred qualifications

• Minimum 12 years in the industry
• Experience on DevOps concepts and way of working
• Experience with algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in Observability practices with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of identity and access management, and application security.

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!

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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.

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