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.