Senior SRE Lead: Reliability, Observability & Azure

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group); Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) seeks a Technical Lead SRE in Raleigh, NC to drive reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across Markets and Risk Intelligence. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to embed reliability from day one.

You will lead SRE foundations, collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Platform teams, and mentor engineers to champion observability standards, incident management, and cost-aware design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience in SRE/Platform Engineering/Infrastructure or related roles
• Strong experience with Azure, including services such as AKS, Azure Container Apps, Virtual Machines, virtual networking (VNet) and Azure managed services
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised platforms
• Strong background in Linux systems administrations
• Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms including monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Hands-on experience with Datadog for metrics, logs, APM, and alerting
• Strong understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability engineering
• Experience working closely with architecture and engineering teams on system design and delivery
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles and experience collaborating with security teams
• Experience with cloud cost optimisation strategies and tooling
• Experience integrating AI with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) for proactive issue detection

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of SRE foundations for new projects building environments, monitoring, alerting, and ensuring operational readiness from day one
• Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, security, and observability into system design
• Define, implement, and champion observability standards, tooling, and guidelines across metrics, logs, traces, and SLIs/SLOs
• Design and evolve monitoring and alerting solutions that improve visibility, reduce toil, and strengthen system health
• Continuously drive reliability improvements across environments through incident reduction, performance tuning, and building resilient patterns
• Partner with Security teams to ensure platforms meet compliance, security, and risk management expectations
• Lead seamless handovers from project delivery into BAU SRE operations by ensuring documentation, readiness, and strong operational practices
• Influence architectural and design decisions through data-driven cloud cost optimization and efficiency initiatives
• Be a technical leader and mentor supporting engineers, shaping engineering standards, and fostering a culture of learning and development

Skills

SRE principles

Kubernetes

Linux administration

Observability platforms

Datadog

Cloud cost optimization

AI with observability

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) seeks a Technical Lead SRE in Raleigh, NC to drive reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across Markets and Risk Intelligence. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to embed reliability from day one.

You will lead SRE foundations, collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Platform teams, and mentor engineers to champion observability standards, incident management, and cost-aware design.