# Senior Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Senior Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead will own and drive the design, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise cloud platforms and migration initiatives.

This role plays a critical part in advancing LSEG Post Trade’s cloud strategy, with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), automation, and cloud-native engineering.

You will lead high-performing engineering teams, shape platform strategy, and ensure secure, scalable, and resilient cloud services.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the design, build, and optimisation of AWS-based cloud platforms, including EKS, Kubernetes, networking, identity, and observability capabilities supporting enterprise-scale workloads

- Drive cloud migration programmes end-to-end, including application assessment, readiness analysis, refactoring strategies, and transition planning

- Shape and deliver platform roadmaps, enabling scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud operations

- Champion automation-first engineering, using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines to improve consistency and speed

- Ensure platform reliability, security, and compliance, embedding engineering standards, architectural patterns, and governance controls across all workloads

- Enable hybrid-cloud integration, supporting selective adoption of Azure services where required

- Collaborate across architecture, security, and operations teams to enforce platform guardrails and guidelines

- Lead and develop engineering teams, encouraging a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement

- Coordinate sprint planning, prioritisation, and delivery execution across multiple engineering streams

- Represent Cloud & Platform Engineering in governance, architecture, and programme forums

- Act as the focal point for complex cloud and Kubernetes challenges, making informed technical and operational decisions

**Requirements**

- Deep expertise in AWS services, including EKS, IAM, networking, compute, observability, and security

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms, including cluster operations and workload optimisation

- Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling

- Solid understanding of hybrid cloud architectures, networking, identity, and security controls

- Experience applying SRE principles, observability frameworks, and managing distributed systems at scale

- Demonstrated success leading cloud transformation and migration programmes

**Leadership & Collaboration**

- Proven ability to lead and inspire engineering teams, delivering complex cloud initiatives

- Strong customer management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams

- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear insights for both technical and non-technical audiences

- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, enterprise-scale environments with multiple priorities

**Qualifications**

- A Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

- AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) preferred

- Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) and DevOps/SRE certifications beneficial

- Azure certifications advantageous but not required

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## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps tooling
- Hybrid cloud architectures
- SRE principles
- Observability frameworks

### Nice to have
- AWS certifications
- Kubernetes certifications
- DevOps/SRE certifications
- Azure certifications

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