Senior Engineer, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering | St Louis, MO, USA

London Stock Exchange Group; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Cloud SRE Engineer to join their innovative Cloud & Productivity Engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will enhance the reliability and performance of hybrid Cloud Platforms while collaborating with diverse teams to implement automation and self-healing capabilities. Your expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, cloud certifications, and DevSecOps practices will be crucial as you mentor teams and drive continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking organization that values excellence and innovation in financial markets infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on Cloud.
• Relevant cloud certifications like AWS or Azure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize hybrid Cloud Platforms for reliability.
• Develop automation tools to enhance efficiency.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Platform Landing Zones

DevSecOps practices

CI/CD Pipelines

Automation

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Terraform

Gitlab

Datadog

Job description

Senior Engineer, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering

London Stock Exchange Group St Louis, United States

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 create sustainable growth.

We are evolving our Cloud Site Reliability Engineering team to move beyond support and operations. As a Senior Cloud SRE Engineer, you will be part of a diverse and inclusive organization that owns the availability, performance, and scalability of one of our key platforms.

Role Profile:

In this role, you will join our Cloud SRE team within Cloud & Productivity Engineering as a Senior Cloud SRE Engineer. This team applies software engineering practices to IT operations to maintain and enhance the availability, scalability, and reliability of our Cloud platform hosting LSEG applications.

We aim to improve automation and self-healing capabilities, monitor and optimize platform performance, and collaborate with architects, developers, and engineers to ensure efficient enterprise cloud solutions. You will be involved in automation, scalability, capacity planning, reliability, business continuity, disaster recovery, and governance.

Required Skills:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, focusing on Cloud Platform Landing Zones and services.
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Fundamentals, or Azure Administrator.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Gitlab.
• 3+ years creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working in Agile environments, familiar with Agile principles and ceremonies.
• Experience with platform and product observability tools like Datadog or native cloud tooling.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience deploying AWS Landing Zones per AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones and Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• Strong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and incident management skills.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of financial markets and institutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engineer, maintain, and optimize hybrid Cloud Platforms focusing on automation, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with teams to improve reliability during build and release stages.
• Develop automation tools to reduce manual effort.
• Mentor teams on best practices for Cloud products and services.
• Follow DevSecOps best practices and industry standards for release strategies.
• Seek automation opportunities and develop customer self-service solutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to meet engineering and business goals.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for landing zone components and processes.
• Promote a culture of customer excellence and continuous improvement.
• Follow ITSM processes for Incident, Request, Change, and Problem Management.