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, from-the-ground-up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture, part of LSEG. This exciting opportunity requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivery excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.
Responsibilities
•Design, develop and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms, tracking KPI metrics and improvement.
•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 environment.
•Treat development teams as your customer, helping them define their processes, run proof of concepts, use best practices and select best-fit solutions.
•Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one-team mentality is promoted.
Requirements
•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 infrastructure.
•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 experience using configuration 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 a wide range of open-source tools.
•Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
•Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple regions and timezones.
•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 the industry.
•Demonstrated keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing stakeholders' expectations.
•Demonstrated ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
•Ability to work well within a team, be helpful and collaborate for the good of the team.
•Ability to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand requirements in depth and translate that into robust, timely delivered applications.
•Ability to be critical and challenging while maintaining respect.
•Understanding of the importance of communication within a team, with a track record of championing it.
•Desire to learn, improve and innovate.
•Very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
•Engineer at heart who enjoys working with various technologies, has an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.
Nice to have
•Experience working with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS (preferred).
Benefits
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
