Lead Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

London Stock Exchange Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Job summary

A leading global financial markets company is seeking a Senior Engineer in Site Reliability. This role involves maintaining service level objectives, enhancing system reliability, and automating to ensure scalability. With a strong focus on cloud platforms, particularly Azure, candidates should have extensive experience in scripting and infrastructure as code. Join a dynamic team committed to innovation and quality while contributing to financial stability across the globe.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years of industry experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure.
• Understanding of application security and identity management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Service Level Objectives for owned systems.
• Partner with development teams to improve system reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident responses.

Skills

Scripting in Shell or Python

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Observability tools knowledge

CI/CD pipeline maintenance

Proficiency in Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure or AWS or GCP

Datadog

Dynatrace

Job description

## Our TeamWe 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 responsibilitiesWe 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. **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.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.Please take a moment to read this carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, .If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) 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 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.