Principal Engineer Mgr, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering

Company Profile

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business.  We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade. 

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Role Profile

• In this role, you'll be joining our Site Reliability Engineering Team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) as a Principal Engineer, Manager reporting directly to the SRE Senior Manager
• This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our AWS cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products.
• Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
• Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient AWS Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platforms.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as observability, networking, virtualisation, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance.

Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• Previous experience leading and mentoring Cloud teams/Communities of Practice.
• Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams/comunities of practice.
• 8 plus years' experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid AWS Platform solutions.
• Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up AWS Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Prior experience in roles such as AWS administration, development, or AWS-focused DevOps
• Familiarity with AWS cloud native components.
• 5 years' demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working in Agile environments, with a demonstrable experience of Agile principles, ceremonies and practices.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, and using CI/CD tools such as Gitlab.
• Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proven track record working in agile environments
• 8 years' hands on experience with Windows/Linux Servers.
• Proactive incident management with Azure/AWS/GCP-based troubleshooting.
• Sound understanding of financial markets.

Education and Professional Skills

• Relevant Professional qualifications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Lead and guide multiple communities of practices, including Lead Platform Enginerring managers and platform engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure/AWS/GCP administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the communitiy of practice leads and teams; the "why", the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc.
• Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog.
• Lead key strategic projects/iniatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable operational excellence. 
• Removes barrier to execution, leads capacity planning and roadmap delivery.
• Engineer and optimize hybrid AWS Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security and automation.
• Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of AWS Landing Zone platforms.
• Provide deep technical expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, compliance, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the long-term AWS Platform strategy.

Benefits

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 enhance each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.

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.

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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