# Stellar Senior Lead Platform Engineer

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

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## Description

The successful candidate for the Stellar Senior Lead Platform Engineer/SRE, reporting to the Stellar Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms tracking KPI metrics and improvement.

- Be able to take ownership of the quality of the platform and act as SRE for non-production environments.

- Support complex application stacks across multiple cloud environments.

- Automate the deployment of Cloud based resources to ensure high availability, performance, scalability and security.

- Track and improve platform running cost and be part of the FinOps operating model.

- Be part of the devops practice in developing best practices and guidance.

- Enable and guide product teams through implementation of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from dev to prod in a cloud based env.

- Treat development teams as your customer while and help them in defining their processes, running proof of concepts, using best practices and selecting best-fit solutions.

- Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

**Key Skills, Experience and Behaviours:**

- Excellent understanding of CI/CD methodologies with good hands-on experience.

- Solid understanding of IaC principles and good hands-on experience using Terraform to build AWS Infra.

- Extensive experience in developing/managing CI/CD pipelines preferably using Gitlab.

- Experience with Container technologies and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm etc.

- Experience deploying apps to Kubernetes.

- Good hands on exp using config management tools such as Ansible etc.

- Experience using code analysis and security tools such as Coverity and Blackduck.

- Experience with scripting languages such as groovy, bash or python.

- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog etc.

- Successful Scaled Agile delivery experience.

- Ability to use wide range of Open-source tools.

- Experience working with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS (Preferred).

- Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

- Experience collaboration with cross-functional teams across multiple regions and timezone.

- Mentoring and developing junior team members.

- Experience working in highly regulated financial industries.

- Experience of being an SRE/Platform engineer for cloud based trading solutions that are widely used by industry.

**Benefits:**

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD methodologies
- IaC principles
- Terraform
- AWS Infra
- Gitlab
- Container technologies
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Ansible
- Coverity
- Blackduck
- groovy
- bash
- python
- Datadog
- Scaled Agile delivery
- Open-source tools
- Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS
- cloud-native applications and infrastructure

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