Senior Lead Devops Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join a highly collaborative, agile team responsible for development and maintenance of a number of Primary Markets applications in LSEG Capital Markets division.

What You'll Be Doing:

• In this role, you'll be joining our Primary Markets Application Services team within the Capital Markets Division as a Lead DevOps Engineer.
• The team maintains systems running on AWS ensuring their availability and resiliency through DevOps standard methodologies.
• You will work in a development pod/team and will be helping maintain DevOps culture through the application of the DevOps pillars.
• The role includes elements of CI/CD and deployment automation, security, systems design for resilience/scalability, operational automation, monitoring, you will own DevOps for your pod.
• The role also includes Level 2 systems support. You will be expected to be periodically available on-call out of office hours. There will also be an element of weekend work.
• Helping to advise on the work of a small team of DevOps Engineers.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience in AWS
• Ability to assess complex system requirements to produce implementation designs
• Understanding of git concepts, CI/CD, release strategy, branching strategy, and development/release pipelines.
• Exceptional knowledge of terraform
• Experience with Unix and Windows environments.
• Experience supporting business critical software system
• Ability to work with teams to assist and guide them on deployment practices, while implementing improvements to enable further automation of deployments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, both orally and written
• Ability to handle own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision.
• Previous experience leading and mentoring technical staff.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Modern tooling experience, e.g. Ansible, Terraform, DataDog, Jenkins/Cloudbees, GitLab, ServiceNow (or similar)
• Source and versioning control with tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Nexus, Artifactory.
• Strong solving skills and ability to identify the root cause of issues.
• Networking issue diagnostic experience.
• AWS Developer/Sysops/DevOps accreditation.
• Can work independently and in a team environment.
• Windows Server and EKS/Kubernetes experience

Benefits:

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 we 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 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 25 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.