Engineer - Operations Engineering

Engineer Position

We are looking for an engineer to join the ISD Markets engineering function. You will be a key member of a dedicated team of engineers where you can showcase your superb technical proficiency, delivering critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security!

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply the best of Operations Engineering to maintain platform stability and reliability,
• Provide technical expertise and best of breed improvements including but not limited to automation, monitoring and alerting.
• Lead, deliver and monitor key improvements to the current systems and infrastructure.
• Architect, Design and Drive enhancements to the environment through to implementation.
• Own and lead on delivery of key project workstreams.
• Actively report on project progress, raising risks and managing deliverables often with conflicting priorities and timescales.
• Plan with foresight to meet deliverables and goals.
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Provide an advanced level of support to the existing environment when required.
• Act as a key contact point for major incidents.
• Identify and propose strategic service and system changes, enhancements and developments and liaise with appropriate third party and software vendors, users and technology teams.
• Responsible for ensuring monitoring performance, issue identification, and taking the lead on resolution.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Work with issue tracking systems to ensure services are provided according to relevant SLA(s).
• Identify and triage risks and issues and provide frequent status reports for management.
• Write and maintain appropriate documentation for manual and automated processes.
• Understand existing complex environments and be able to easily identify problem areas and undertake successful implementations to resolve and/or mitigate.
• Assist with out of hours / weekend changes.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or a related subject) or have 5 years shown experience in similar role and environment.
• Shown working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments.
• Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g. VMware, RHEV).
• Experience with monitoring systems.
• Experience with automation software (e.g. Ansible, Puppet).
• Scripting skills (e.g. Shell scripts, Python, Perl, Ruby).
• Networking knowledge.
• Database Knowledge (Oracle, PL SQL).
• Superb communication and stakeholder management.
• Be dedicated, responsive and capable to working to tight deadlines

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.

Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.