Senior DevOps Engineer

The Benchmarks & Indices business within the London Stock Exchange Group is responsible for the providing a variety of index and benchmark data used in monitoring markets and making financial decisions. This role is sits within the Refinitiv Benchmark Services Ltd (RBSL) technology division within Benchmarks & Indices group. The responsibility of the team is to build and implement well-architected solutions responsible for the calculation, management and distribution of highly regulated products to customers

The role is for a Senior DevOps engineer within the RBSL Technology team. The engineer will be responsible for developing the infrastructure and automation to operate a serioes of applications runing and being migrated to AWS.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS cloud technologies as well as modern build, configuration and release management tooling and processes. In addition, some knowledge of managing infrastructure services would be useful, such as networking and system administration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own user stories end to end from requirements gathering through development and testing to implementation
• Follow the code development and testing life cycle
• Manage the implementation of change without adverse impact to continuity of service, adhering to existing change policy and processes, liaising with other business and technical teams where appropriate
• Write and maintain support documentation, technical specifications and user guides.
• Proactively identify and raise operational risks. Provide short term solutions whilst tracking long term resolution.
• Provide technical expertise to the other areas of the group
• Proactively identify and implement operational improvements for processes, performance and reliability
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure their requirements are met and that they have full visibility of implementation.
• Support development changes, providing accurate estimates for time and capital costs, attending project meetings and analysing impact for proposed project work and meeting deadlines
• Develop an understanding of procedures and SLAs for all services supported by the team.

Candidate Background and Skillset:

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise DevOps
• Strong background in Linux
• Strong coding/scripting experience (BASH/Shell)
• Primary applications used in implementing and deploying infrastructure are: Terraform, Gitlab, JFrog Artifactory
• Experience implementing code analysis and support tools such as Blackduck, Sonarqube, Veracode,Twistlock or similar tools.
• Experience with configuring and using a CI/CD tool such as Gitlab or Jenkins
• Experience with provisioning and configuration management using Terraform or equivalent
• Git source control using Gilab or equivalent
• Experience with AWS - AWS API, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route53, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, ADFS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to share information and work individually or as part of a team to solve problems
• Understating of computer networks and underlying protocols
• Pro-active approach to learning about and adapting to new technologies

Preferred Skills

• Understanding of the build and operation of web sites
• Experience of best practises to support always-on mission critical systems
• Appreciation of the business processes and their importance
• Knowledge of agile software development and DevOps philosophies
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with Java, Node.js and/or Python

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

We maximize each employee's potential through personal development and through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe that 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

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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

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