Aws, Database Administrator

Role Profile
- In this role, you'll be joining our Corporate Technology as AWS, Database Administrator, Corporate Technology (CT).This team serves as an extension between Corporate Technology and LSEG central engineering, operations, and compliance teams with the key focus of enabling our CT DevOps teams to bring new software or new features to production as quickly as possible.

ARE do this by:

- Ensuring all central requirements and changes are supported via aligned ARE squads. Using our ARE squads, the team will either directly implement the technical change required or lead CT coordinated efforts where there are multiple capability dependencies.
- Ensuring correct tooling standards are being followed as well as automation of operational tasks.
- Supporting CT Cloud, Compliance, Security Controls and Risk Management.
- Ensuring an acceptable level of IT operations performance and error risk in line with service level agreements (SLAs)
- Continuously review operating metrics and data to see opportunities to improve.
- Tech Profile/Essential Skills
- AWS, AWS Aurora MS SQL/MYSQL, AWS Security, Cloud Formation Template
- DevOps - Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline / API, Jenkins
- GITLAB, Migration of Repository, Maintenance of Pipeline.
- Bamboo, Nexus/Jfrog-Artefacts
- Migration from On Prem to cloud, Integrating testing tools with CI/CD Pipeline
- System Engineer - Red Hat/windows
- Preferred Skills and Experience
- Hands-On experience of working 5-8 Years on Windows/ Linux Servers. Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Leading incidents, change requests, service requests and driving TRT (Technical Recovery Team) calls.
- Strong Problem solving skills on these platforms
- Minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable.
- Effective Communication in English with all levels of staff, both orally and written.
- Ability to handle own work and multitask to meet Timelines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision.
- Highly motivated, self-directed individual with a positive & pro-active demeanour to work.
- Customer and service focused, with determination to meet their needs and expectations.
- Be Fervent and focused to the goals and objectives of the team and organization.
- 05-07 Years of experience as Technical
- 05 Years of experience on AWS Cloud
- Ability to provide Production support: 24/7, On-call outside support hours.
- Point of escalation in event of a major incident
- Education and Professional Skills
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or STEM degree (Desirable)
- Proven English reading/writing capability required.
- Strong communication & articulation skills.
- Curious about new technologies and tools, creative thinking and initiative taking.
- Relevant DevOps certifications will be advantageous.
- Agile related certifications preferable
- Deep technical understanding of development and systems / platform engineering
- Customer centricity
- Strategic ability to define technical direction in the portfolio of products including technical strategies and plans and execution plans.
- Excellent social skills.
- Detailed Responsibilities
- Work closely with senior and junior engineers in Cloud & ARE Team and coordinate the efforts with lead and manager of the team.
- Must harmonise with global teams in time zones spanning UK, US, APAC areas.
- Design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure and services using industry standard methodologies and automation tools.
- Implement and handle AWS services such as EC2 ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3 RDS, and VPC, ensuring scalability, high availability, and security.
- Build and maintain Docker containers and container images, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance across different environments.
- Develop and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to provision and run AWS resources.
- Collaborate with development teams to define and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and other relevant tools.
- Implement and maintain robust security practices, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance.
- Stay up to date with the latest AWS services, DevOps tools, and industry standard processes, and share knowledge with the team.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to provide technical guidance and support for infrastructure-related decisions and projects.
- Familiarity with relational databases. (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- Proficient in SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile methodologies.
- Build a CI/CD pipeline and maintain the pipeline for Software Delivery.
- Collaborate with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure the patching are up to date.

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 Chan