Trade Agent Senior Lead Platform Engineer | London, UK

The successful candidate for the TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer/SRE, reporting to the TradeAgent Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG. This opening 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms tracking key performance metrics and improvement.
• Be able to 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 while helping them in defining their processes, running proof of concepts, using best practices and selecting best-fit solutions.
• Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Key Skills, Experience and Behaviours

• 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 Infra.
• 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 config 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.
• Experience working with Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS (Preferred).
• Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
• Experience collaborating with multi-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 industry.

Key Behaviours

• You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing your stakeholders' expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, being helpful and collaborating with each other for the good of the team.
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintaining respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies and has an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence which are at the core of our culture. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

About Us

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is a diversified international market infrastructure and capital markets business sitting at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1698. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, a pan-European equities MTF. It is also home to one of the world's leading growth markets for SMEs, AIM. Through its platforms, the Group offers international business and investors unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets.

Post trade and risk management services are a significant part of the Group's business operations. In addition to majority ownership of multi-asset global CCP operator, LCH Group, LSEG operates CC&G, the Italian clearing house; the T2S-ready European settlement business; and globeSettle, the Group's newly established CSD based in Luxembourg.

The Group is a global leader in indexing and analytic solutions. FTSE Russell offers thousands of indexes that measure and benchmark markets around the world. The Group also provides customers with an extensive range of real time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, and RNS.

London Stock Exchange Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software for customers around the world. In addition to the Group's own markets, over 35 other organisations and exchanges use the Group's MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology. Headquartered in London, with significant operations in North America, Italy, France and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 4,700 people.

Values & Behaviours

• Integrity: My word is my bond. Integrity underpins all that we do - from unshakable commitment to building and supporting global markets based on transparency and trust, to every transaction across our business with each and every stakeholder. We are a source of enduring confidence in the financial system, so when we say that our work is our bond - we mean it.
• Partnership: We collaborate to succeed. We pride ourselves on working together as proactive partners, building positive relationships with our colleagues, customers, investors, regulators, governments and shareholders - for our mutual success and the benefit of all.
• Innovation: We nurture new ideas. We are ambitious and forward-looking - a pioneering Group of market innovators, driven by fresh thinking that has kept us ahead of change. We prudently and proactively invest to make sure that our markets and services constantly move forward, developing and evolving with advances in technology.
• Excellence: We are committed to quality. We have a fundamental commitment to developing teams who deliver to the highest standards in all that we do. By collaborating together, we will sustain industry-leading levels of excellence, setting the benchmarks that inspire ever better performance.

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.