Site Reliability Engineer - - Electronic Trading Team

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group); St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in St. Louis, Missouri. You will be part of a diverse team responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our FX trading platform, used by major financial institutions globally.

Your role involves developing automation, maintaining service level objectives, and collaborating with development teams. Required qualifications include expertise in DevOps, distributed systems, and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.

The position offers various benefits including healthcare and retirement planning.

Qualifications

• Experience with programming languages: Java, C#, Python.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems supported.
• Continuously measure and improve availability and overall system health.
• Partner with development teams to enhance reliability and observability.

Skills

DevOps

Scripting and automation (Bash, Python)

Distributed systems

Cloud environments (Azure, AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

Tools

SQL

Kubernetes

Job description

We 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.

We are looking for people with a passion for learning and a continuousimprovement mindset to join our Electronic Trading (ET) team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, reliability, and operational excellence of our highperformance FX trading platform-technology used by major financial institutions around the world.

This role plays a key part in ensuring our trading systems remain robust, secure, scalable, and highly available. You will work across complex, missioncritical environments and drive architectural enhancements that support the future of our platform.

The ET platform is a highly configurable, componentbased FX dealing system delivered as isolated client instances. It supports direct electronic trading via web interfaces, connectivity adaptors, and APIs. The platform integrates seamlessly with marketrate providers, credit engines, and backend services to enable full straightthrough processing.

What You Will Do

• Own and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the systems you support.


• Continuously measure and improve availability, and overall system health.


• Develop automation to scale systems sustainably and prevent or mitigate service issues.


• Partner with development teams to enhance reliability, observability, and release velocity.


• Participate in oncall rotations, incident response, postincident reviews, and rootcause analysis. Promote strong engineering practices to help build, deploy, and operate highperformance services.


• Act as a key enabler for Cloud migration, working with operations and engineering teams from project inception through to operational readiness.


• Conduct architectural reviews, support operational acceptance testing, and configure Datadog dashboards and metrics.

You will need to have experience of DevOps or operating highly available distributed systems, strong scripting and automation skills (Bash,Python,etc). Understanding of Linux and cloud environments. Knowledge of working with financial trading systems an advantage.

Minimum qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related technical field involving software/systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


• Experience with programming languages such as: Java, C#, Python.


• Experience with relational databases and SQL


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.


• Experience in Observability practices with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.


• Hands on Experience with one of the following cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on DevOps concepts and way of working.


• Experience with algorithms and data structures.

Career Stage

Senior Associate

Benefits

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.