LSEG

Lead DevOps Engineer St. Louis, USA

In short

Lead DevOps Engineer role within LSEG's SRC Team (Application Services Division), driving adoption of standard DevOps toolsets and cloud architecture patterns for trading venues and surveillance platforms, working follow-the-sun with teams in the UK and Sri Lanka. Involves the full project lifecycle from requirements to production deployment, building CI/CD pipelines, IaC patterns, observability and cloud alerting standards. Requires 5+ years building cloud-native solutions and DevOps automation at enterprise scale across Azure, AWS and GCP, with relevant experience in tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, Kafka and Datadog.

Role Profile
This Lead DevOps Engineer position is a key role within the SRC Team which sits within the Application Services Division, with responsibilities to facilitate adoption of standard DevOps toolsets as well as contributing to standard architecture patterns for onboarding applications into Cloud. Supporting the follow-the-sun model for our trading venues and surveillance platforms alongside colleagues in the UK and Sri Lanka.
What You will be Doing
•The role will have involvement throughout project lifecycle – from gathering Requirements to Production deployment, and interaction with a wide variety of teams to generate and refine resources including cloud patterns, templates for CI/CD pipelines, application builds, automated testing, code scanning to production deployments.
•There will also be involvement in proof-of-concept implementations, pilots and definition of Principles, Policies and Standards providing a framework, functions (scripts), and templates to ensure consistent and efficient delivery automation of SDLC and infrastructure lifecycle activities, reducing human intervention, avoiding redundancy, and enabling the teams to realise the full benefit of standard tools and processes.
•We strive for our engineers to work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise standard process and believe quality is everyone's responsibility. Candidates must bring an enthusiastic "you build it you run it" attitude whilst making sure they share their knowledge while removing constraints.
What You will Bring
We are looking for someone who has 5+ years in:
•Building cloud native solutions via Infrastructure as Code (IAC) defining patterns and practices
•DevOps Automation across various Technologies such as those detailed in the Tech Profile, including Secrets Mgmt, Code/Binary Scans and other SDLC tools such as Maven / Ansible.
•Working at scale in large enterprise organisations implementing unique, end-to-end advanced technology solutions.
•Building CI/CD pipelines orchestrating the promotion of code using open source or COTS products
•Defining, implementing cloud native operational requirements
•Defining standards on observability and implementing cloud alerting solutions
•Cloud Technology across cloud service providers: Azure, AWS & GCP
•Has an open and collaborative mentality and is able to communicate with Senior Members of Dev, Infra and architecture teams as needed.
Relevant experience may include: AWS, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Git-based source control, Jenkins or comparable CI/CD platforms, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Kafka, SQL/Oracle, Control-M, Rundeck, Datadog or similar observability platforms, Jira and Confluence.
Depth in every listed technology is not required; we value sound engineering judgement, learning agility and the ability to lead specialists optimally.
Career Stage
Senior Associate
About LSEG
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, employing 25,000 people globally. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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