# Lead Platform Engineer – LOCP Platform

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

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## Description

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. This role is for a Lead Platform Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team responsible for developing and evolving the LOCP platform, a strategic technology enabling the migration of flagship real-time systems onto an advanced, cutting-edge container platform.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design, development, and evolution of LOCP platform capabilities across development, test, and production environments.

- Build, enhance, and maintain platform services using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and engineering best practices.

- Contribute to platform architecture decisions and technology roadmaps, ensuring solutions align with strategic objectives and engineering standards.

- Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the platform, driving improvements in reliability, availability, resilience, and scalability.

- Implement and improve service observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational tooling.

- Support incident analysis, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement activities to reduce operational risk and improve service quality.

- Act as a technical leader within the team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers across the platform organisation.

- Partner with architecture, product, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business needs.

- Promote a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.

**Qualifications & Experience:**

- Advanced expertise in at least two or three of the following domains:

- Building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise or large-scale production environments.

- Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly with Terraform.

- Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

- Experience designing and implementing observability solutions.

- Strong software engineering skills with Go (Golang).

- Solid Linux systems knowledge.

- Soft skills: strong communication skills, excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities, demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and influence engineering outcomes.

**Benefits:**

- Join a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

- Opportunities for technical growth, leadership development, and influence over the future direction of the LOCP platform.

- Highly supportive, collaborative, and inclusive engineering culture.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Go (Golang)
- Linux

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