Lead Platform Engineer – LOCP Platform
London Stock Exchange Group2 hours 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.