Lead DevOps Engineer St. Louis, USA

London Stock Exchange Group•St. Loui, MO

About The Position

The Lead DevOps Engineer is a key role within the SRC Team in the Application Services Division. The position facilitates adoption of standard DevOps toolsets and contributes to standard architecture patterns for onboarding applications into the cloud. It supports a follow-the-sun model for trading venues and surveillance platforms, working with colleagues in the UK and Sri Lanka. The role is involved throughout the project lifecycle, from requirements gathering through production deployment, and collaborates with varied teams to develop and refine cloud patterns, CI/CD pipeline templates, application builds, automated testing, code scanning, and production deployment resources. It also contributes to proofs of concept, pilots, and the definition of principles, policies, and standards. The role helps establish frameworks, functions, scripts, and templates that enable consistent, efficient automation of SDLC and infrastructure lifecycle activities, reduce manual intervention and redundancy, and help teams benefit from standard tools and processes. Engineers work in small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasize standard processes and shared responsibility for quality. The role calls for a “you build it, you run it” mindset, knowledge sharing, and removing constraints. The position is listed at the Senior Associate career stage.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in the listed areas.
Experience building cloud-native solutions through Infrastructure as Code and defining patterns and practices.
Experience with DevOps automation across technologies, including secrets management, code and binary scanning, and SDLC tools such as Maven and Ansible.
Experience working at scale in large enterprise organizations to implement end-to-end advanced technology solutions.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate code promotion using open-source or commercial off-the-shelf products.
Experience defining and implementing cloud-native operational requirements.
Experience defining observability standards and implementing cloud alerting solutions.
Cloud technology experience across cloud service providers including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
An open, collaborative mentality and ability to communicate with senior development, infrastructure, and architecture team members as needed.
Enthusiastic “you build it, you run it” attitude, with willingness to share knowledge and remove constraints.

Nice To Haves

Relevant experience with 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.
Sound engineering judgment, learning agility, and ability to lead specialists effectively; depth in every listed technology is not required.

Responsibilities

Facilitate adoption of standard DevOps toolsets.
Contribute to standard architecture patterns for onboarding applications into cloud environments.
Support trading venues and surveillance platforms in a follow-the-sun operating model alongside colleagues in the UK and Sri Lanka.
Participate throughout the project lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production deployment.
Collaborate with teams to develop and refine cloud patterns, CI/CD pipeline templates, application builds, automated testing, code scanning, and production deployment resources.
Contribute to proof-of-concept implementations and pilots.
Define principles, policies, and standards, and provide frameworks, functions or scripts, and templates for delivery automation across SDLC and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
Reduce manual intervention and redundancy and help teams realize the benefits of standard tools and processes.
Share knowledge and help remove constraints within small, agile, self-managed teams.
Define cloud-native operational requirements and standards for observability, and implement cloud alerting solutions.
Build CI/CD pipelines that orchestrate code promotion.
Build cloud-native solutions using Infrastructure as Code and define related patterns and practices.