Lead DevOps Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group•St. Loui, MO

About The Position

The Lead DevOps Engineer is a key role within LSEG’s SRC Team in the Application Services Division. The role facilitates adoption of standard DevOps toolsets and contributes to standard architecture patterns for onboarding applications into cloud environments. It supports trading venues and surveillance platforms using a follow-the-sun model alongside colleagues in the UK and Sri Lanka. The engineer participates throughout the project lifecycle, from requirements gathering through production deployment, working with diverse teams to develop cloud patterns, CI/CD templates, application builds, automated testing, code scanning, and deployment practices. The role also contributes to proofs of concept, pilots, and the definition of principles, policies, and standards, creating frameworks, scripts, and templates that support consistent, efficient automation of the SDLC and infrastructure lifecycle. The role is suited to an engineer with a “you build it, you run it” mindset who works in small, agile, self-managed teams, shares knowledge, and helps remove constraints. Responsibilities also include operational support for MIT equities applications, including exchange, surveillance, and price dissemination platforms.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience building cloud-native solutions using Infrastructure as Code and defining patterns and practices.
At least 5 years of experience in DevOps automation across technologies such as secrets management, code and binary scanning, and SDLC tools including Maven and Ansible.
At least 5 years of experience working at scale in large enterprise organizations to implement advanced, end-to-end technology solutions.
At least 5 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate code promotion using open-source or commercial off-the-shelf products.
At least 5 years of experience defining and implementing cloud-native operational requirements.
At least 5 years of experience defining observability standards and implementing cloud alerting solutions.
At least 5 years of experience with cloud technologies across providers including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
An open and collaborative approach and the ability to communicate with senior development, infrastructure, and architecture team members.
Relevant experience may include 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 the ability to lead specialists effectively; depth in every listed technology is not required.

Responsibilities

Design and build code to provision the full stack, from infrastructure through to applications.
Analyze current DevOps practices and provide maturity assessments.
Develop CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate code promotion.
Integrate applications into operations architecture, including platforms such as Datadog, Control-M, and Rubrik.
Develop design patterns, modules, and libraries that integrate SDLC processes into CI/CD pipelines.
Support project teams in meeting operational requirements and implementing changes.
Contribute to support, technical, and user documentation and artefacts.
Collaborate with teams to create common standards and procedures.
Resolve automation engineering, coding, and architecture issues using technical expertise.
Follow group governance processes for incidents, problems, changes, and releases, coordinating with business and technical teams as appropriate.
Support development changes, estimate work, attend project meetings, assess impacts, and deliver to deadlines.
Provide technical advice and risk assessments based on knowledge of applications, databases, and system software.
Take ownership of live-service issues and drive their resolution, escalating issues and coordinating with stakeholders when needed.
Identify industry trends and reflect them in resources for development teams, working with policy and platform owners where necessary.
Identify operational risks and technical debt, provide short-term solutions, and track longer-term resolutions.
Implement operational improvements to processes, performance, and reliability.
Create educational materials and conduct DevOps training and mentoring.
Advocate for the DevOps team and help understand and address challenges in the intake process.
Provide MIT applications support and technical feedback on re-engineering of MIT equities systems, including exchange, surveillance, and price dissemination platforms.
Act as the operations subject matter expert for one or more supported MIT equities applications.
Develop and deliver training materials, seminars, and workshops on supporting MIT equities applications to colleagues in the UK.
Perform operational responsibilities, including monitoring systems and deploying releases.
Gain in-depth knowledge of unit processes and reduce recurring technical issues by taking ownership of live-service problems.
Lead change implementation without adversely affecting service continuity, following change policies and coordinating with business and technical teams.
Ensure changes are correctly impact-assessed and implemented.
Train Level 1 teams to perform an adequate level of triage for application issues.
Write and maintain support documentation, service models, incident management processes, technical specifications, and user guides.