Senior DevOps Engineer | London, UK

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider as a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will enhance developer workflows, evaluate tools, and bridge collaboration between engineering teams, ensuring optimal performance and system integration in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proficient in one or more programming languages like Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab and Jenkins is desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud services like Azure and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Enhance developer experience via tools and platforms.
• Collaborate with vendors to assess and implement development tools.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members.

Skills

Programming Proficiency

CI/CD Tools

Cloud Platforms

Monitoring Tools

Problem-Solving

Job description

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier and more productive? Do you thrive on streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and leading innovation? If so, we want you on our team! We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community. Join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer and help us revolutionize our development tools, workflows, and processes to enhance the productivity and satisfaction of our developers.

Job Description:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the productivity and efficiency of our development teams. You will focus on building and maintaining tools, platforms, and processes that improve the overall developer experience. Your work will involve close collaboration with developers, DevOps engineers, and other customers to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance of development workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

Developer Experience Enhancements: Work on projects to improve developer productivity using tools such as Backstage to create internal developer portals and improve developer workflows.

Vendor Collaboration & Tool Evaluation: Interact with third-party vendors to evaluate and new and existing software development tools. Conduct thorough assessments of vendor tools, understanding their fit with current systems, and advocating for the best solutions that improve developer productivity and system efficiency.

Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with engineering teams to understand their needs and provide solutions. Mentor junior team members, providing guidance on standard methodologies for DevOps.

Infrastructure Automation & Management: Use Terraform/OpenTofu and automation frameworks to provision and manage infrastructure.

Monitoring & Observability: Configure and utilise observability tools like Datadog for performance monitoring, alerting, and visualisation, ensuring system reliability and quick identification of issues.

Performance Optimisation: Continuously monitor the performance of the tools and services and implement optimisations to improve build times, system uptime, and deployment frequency.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Programming Proficiency: Proficient in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, C#, etc.).
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab and Jenkins.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem solve and optimize systems.

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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