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.