DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer, Market Operations Technology

LSEG is home to the exciting business of Capital Markets. As one of LSEG's core strengths, and with people at our centre, Capital Markets is crucial to enabling LSEGs mission. Today we are working to improve the critical systems which underpin the services that London Stock Exchange provides. We are offering a front row seat to the rise of fintech and digitalisation of the Financial Industry.

We take pride in our teams and are an equal opportunity employer. Our colleagues' backgrounds and experiences are as varied as the solutions they provide. Flexible working opportunities, a deep sense of community, and a collective mission to deliver our cloud first initiative, makes this a hugely rewarding place to work.

Unlike many organisations, most of our technology solutions are developed and delivered in-house. This internal expertise allows us to understand the diverse needs of our business and use modern methodologies to meet them. Just like our industry, we are constantly evolving and there has never been a more exciting time for you to join!

The role is within the Market Operations Technology team which sits within the CM Shared Technology Division. We strive for our engineers to work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyone's responsibility. They bring an enthusiastic "you build it you run it" mindset whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints.

The DevOps engineer is a member of software engineering team who handles infrastructure, development, and deployment of the product and responsible for creating a continuous, automated, and feedback-driven production line in line with DevOps objectives. This role requires experience as a DevOps engineer in a cloud landscape (ideally AWS).

Troubleshooting, enhancing the environments, and ensuring service availability will be a key part of this role.

Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Elastic Search, Scripting Technologies (Bash / Python / PowerShell), workflow automation and scheduling, Jira, Confluence.

• understands and can implement Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices
• has understanding and experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment
• can build CI/CD pipelines orchestrating the promotion of code
• understands the importance of observability and is familiar with the concept of implementing automatic alerts
• has an open and collaborative mindset keeping artefacts up to date and relevant while actively promoting knowledge sharing
• Ensure that all operational responsibilities are performed including monitoring systems and deploying releases
• Support development changes, providing accurate estimates for time and capital costs, attending project meetings and meeting deadlines
• Work closely with the Agile team to ensure operational requirements are met and changes impacted and implemented
• Troubleshooting and problem solving across the DevOps infrastructure;
• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements;
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products;
• Work in cloud technologies and porting existing systems to cloud and automate them;
• Automation of build, integrate and test cycles related to the product;
• Implement our technical roadmap as we scale our services and build new products
• Advocate and evangelise best practice engineering
• Have familiarity with security and operational best practices
• Working in a modern, agile environment
• Identifies, prioritises, and executes tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develops tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Communicates with clarity, precision, and influence, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate

Key Skills

• 2+ years of experience in enterprise DevOps and/or software engineering
• Experience with AWS - AWS API, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route53, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Cloud-Trail, IAM, ADFS, ElastiCache, Microservices, Elastic Beanstalk, DataDog
• Experience deploying applications in multiple availability zones, good understanding of disaster recovery setups and practices.
• Strong understanding of Cloud deployment security requirements
• Strong background in Linux and/or Windows
• Strong coding/scripting experience (BASH/Shell)
• Experience with configuring and using a CI/CD tool such as Jenkins
• Experience with provisioning and configuration management using Bitbucket, Ansible, Terraform or equivalent
• Git source control using Bitbucket or equivalent
• Experience with security best practices for data at rest and data in-transit using AWS tools such as SSE-KMS, security policies, cryptographic protocols
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Pro-active approach to learning about and adapting to new technologies
• Knowledge of agile software development and DevOps philosophies
• Experience of managing and operating containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Anthos.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence

We are looking for intellectually curious people, interested in the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios. If you are a forward thinker and problem solver, this is the place to be as we will be supporting you to fast forward your career.

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• Team Buildings

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise - and our purpose. You'll be part of an organisation of over 25,000 people, spanning 70 countries. We recognise the individual perspectives each of our colleagues brings, and our diverse workforce is one of our greatest strengths. In supporting collaboration and creativity and encouraging new ideas across a diverse and inclusive workforce, we can improve how we are driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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

We are an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) ("We") may hold about you, what it's used for, and how it's obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.