Platform Engineer (Azure)

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial markets infrastructure provider as an Azure Platform Engineer, where you will be pivotal in developing and optimizing hybrid Azure solutions. This role offers the chance to collaborate with a dynamic team, engaging in innovative projects that drive financial stability and empower economies. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, ensuring robust security, efficient operations, and a commitment to excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a sustainable future while advancing your career in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement Planning

Paid Volunteering Days

Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing and implementing Azure solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
• Collaborate in implementing Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platform.

Skills

Azure Platform Solutions

Networking

Virtualization

Security

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD Pipelines

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jira

Gitlab

Job description

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to build sustainable growth.

ROLE SUMMARY:

• In this role, you will be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Engineering, Corporate Technology and Cloud (CT) as an Azure Platform Engineer (Azure). This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we strive to transform how LSEG uses the cloud platform.
• Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
• Work alongside architects, developers, and other specialists to ensure efficient Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platforms.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineers, architects, and other customers in the implementation of an Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platform.
• Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Adhere to standard methodologies in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Continuously seek areas of improvement, troubleshooting technical issues, and providing innovative solutions.
• Participate in Product related activities to meet operational needs.
• To ensure knowledge articles of all supported systems are continually updated.
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure.
• To follow and adhere to established Incident, Change and Problem Management procedures.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Proven experience in developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
• Can demonstrate proven working knowledge in setting up Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud native components.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Engage in agile methodologies and participate actively in agile ceremonies.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaS) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, Jira and Gitlab.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal customers, team members, and management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience with Windows/Linux Servers.
• Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
• Sound understanding of financial markets.
• Adept at collaborating in diverse teams, with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Previous roles involving Azure administration, Azure development, and/or DevOps processes.

WORKING WITH 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.