Lead DevOps Engineer

Role Profile

We are seeking a Senior DevOps engineer to join the ForexClear IT Development team and grow and lead a new DevOps team in Bucharest. Our company is on a growth trajectory, we are beginning our migration to public cloud and the team needs to grow accordingly.

The successful candidate should have a computer science / technically orientated degree and be able to demonstrate their previous experience working in IT with relevant skills in the domain of DevOps.

Upon joining you will work on cloud whilst helping the team to support the existing DevOps automation and project deliveries so that our business continues to thrive and deliver its commercial goals.

Role Summary

• This is team lead role that requires someone who is both technical and hands on as well as having some managerial responsibility. We are looking to grow a DevOps team in Bucharest and the successful candidate will lead, recruit for and look after this team. They will be responsible for the day to day line management of the team. The responsibility for managing career progression and appraisals within the team will remain the responsibility of the overall DevOps manager based in London.
• As a senior member of the team there is an expectation the role will encompass upskilling the wider team supplying knowledge, experience and ideas that will help steer towards and deliver best practices for both cloud migration and DevOps automation.
• Assist the current DevOps team with cloud migration, automating infrastructure, tools and processes.
• Help the team support existing tooling and infrastructure, ensuring the business can continue to successfully release new functionality and grow.
• Demonstrate you are highly motivated to learn, solve problems and grow their skills. They will require excellent communication skills to work collaboratively both within the team and across the wider organization to deliver outstanding automation.

What you'll be doing:

• Learn our existing infrastructure, tools and processes and help the team support them.
• Help improve existing tools and processes where required.
• Support other scrum team project deliveries where they require assistance from the DevOps team.
• Champion automation within the team and strive for improvement.
• Help craft the design, architecture and build for our cloud migration.
• Improve our CICD capability.
• Help nurture and drive a zero-touch approach.

What you'll bring:

Key Skills

• Great communication skills.
• The ability to collaborate on ideas, be a great teammate and deliver as part of a team.
• Strong technical skills and automation experience.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of technologies and/or subjective matter expert knowledge of a technology, advising others on design, development and implementation.
• Contribute to the definition and build of best of breed automation solutions.
• Manage own workload and promote an inclusive and open culture.
• Public cloud experience ideally in AWS.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Gitlab and building pipelines.
• Experience with Anthos.
• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in DevSecOps and/or FinOps.
• Experience with multiple cloud providers.
• Experience working in a hybrid model (cloud and on-prem).

What you'll get in return:

• The opportunity to join a growing company and share in its success.
• As a small entity within LSEG work contributions are visible, impactful and recognised by senior leadership.
• Future career growth opportunity within ForexClear as well as the wider LSEG group.
• Great opportunity to learn with access to significant training and certification.
• Chance to join a high caliber team that thrives on success and collaboration.
• Opportunity to shape the team.
• A unique opportunity and challenge to work on cutting edge technology and meet resilience standards beyond normal cloud provisioning.
• Flexible hybrid working conditions (Digital First).
• Competitive compensation package.
• Access to regular 1-2-1 mentoring and leadership with option to grow as either a people manager or individual contributor.
• Well defined and clear objectives and quarterly reviews to support career growth.
• Access to seminars and events.
• Potential to travel to London if preferred.

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

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.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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