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Lead Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

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Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering to join our team at LSEG. You will be part of a diverse and inclusive organization that has full ownership of the availability, performance, and scalability of one of the most critical shared services at LSEG.

As a Lead Engineer in Site Reliability, you will maintain Service Level Objectives for the systems you own. You will constantly measure and improve availability, latency, and overall system health. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Writing automation to scale systems sustainably, prevent service issues, or quickly recover service when issues occur
  • Partnering with development teams to improve system reliability, observability, and release velocity
  • Participating in on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis and resolution
  • Advocating for strong and sound engineering practices to build, deploy, and run scalable, reliable, and performant services
  • Enabling Cloud migration working with foundation and migration teams from project inception, performing architectural reviews, operational acceptable testing, and configuring Datadog dashboards and metrics

The successful candidate will have:

  • A Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related technical field involving software/systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Shell, Python, or similar
  • Experience in maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with one of the following cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar
  • Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and running blameless post-mortems
  • Proficiency in Git workflows

Preferred qualifications include:

  • Minimum 8-10 years of industry experience
  • Experience with DevOps concepts and way of working
  • Experience with algorithms and data structures
  • Understanding of identity and access management, and application security
  • Familiarity with native Azure relational databases

We offer a dynamic work environment with a culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

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