Lead Platform Engineer – LOCP Platform
London Stock Exchange Group2 months ago
St. Louis, MO, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of LOCP platform capabilities across development, test, and production environments.
- Build, enhance, and maintain platform services using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and engineering best practices.
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions and technology roadmaps.
- Improve platform reliability, availability, resilience, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
- Implement metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and operational tooling.
- Support incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers across the platform organization.
- Collaborate with architecture, product, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Drive engineering standards for testing, documentation, peer review, automation, quality, supportability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Advanced expertise in at least two or three relevant domains, including enterprise Kubernetes platforms, Terraform, Site Reliability Engineering, observability, Go, Linux, or modern software delivery practices.
- Experience building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise or large-scale production environments.
- Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly with Terraform.
- Experience applying SRE principles, including reliability, automation, observability, incident management, and operational excellence.
- Experience designing and implementing observability solutions using metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards.
- Strong Go software engineering skills for platform services, automation tooling, APIs, or operators.
- Solid Linux systems knowledge, including troubleshooting, performance analysis, and platform operations.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, technical leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing skills.
Benefits
- Opportunities for technical growth, leadership development, and influence over the LOCP platform direction.
- Supportive, collaborative, inclusive engineering culture with continuous learning, experimentation, and emerging-technology adoption.
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Work with a global organization across 65 countries; specific work arrangement is not stated.
About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.