Lead DevOps Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group4 days ago
St. Louis, MO, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build full-stack provisioning solutions from infrastructure through application deployment.
- Architect and develop CI/CD pipelines, reusable modules, libraries, templates, and design patterns for SDLC automation.
- Define and implement cloud-native operational requirements, observability standards, alerting solutions, and application integrations.
- Support cloud onboarding, proof-of-concepts, pilots, architecture patterns, governance standards, and developer-focused resources.
- Provide technical expertise for automation engineering, coding, architecture, application support, recovery, and re-engineering initiatives.
- Monitor systems, deploy releases, participate in on-call support and weekend testing, and take ownership of live service issues.
- Perform Level 2 technical advice, risk assessments, maturity assessments, impact analysis, and root-cause resolution.
- Support MIT equities applications covering exchange, surveillance, and price dissemination platforms.
- Collaborate across IT, development, infrastructure, architecture, and vendor teams to establish common standards and procedures.
- Identify operational risks and technical debt, implement short-term mitigations, and track long-term resolutions.
- Create educational materials, conduct workshops and training, and mentor colleagues and Level 1 support teams.
- Follow ITSM processes and SLAs/SLOs while delivering operational improvements in performance, reliability, and service quality.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience architecting and building cloud-native solutions using Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience defining DevOps automation patterns and practices across enterprise technologies and SDLC tools.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines that orchestrate code promotion using open-source or commercial products.
- Experience defining cloud-native operational requirements, observability standards, and cloud alerting solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Relevant experience may include Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Git-based source control, Jenkins, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Kafka, SQL/Oracle, Control-M, Rundeck, Datadog, Jira, and Confluence.
- Experience working at scale in large enterprise organizations and implementing advanced end-to-end technology solutions.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with senior development, infrastructure, and architecture stakeholders.
- Strong engineering judgment, learning agility, and ability to lead specialists effectively.
- Experience supporting applications, databases, system software, production operations, incident management, and ITSM processes.
Benefits
- Based in St. Louis, USA, supporting a follow-the-sun model with colleagues in the UK and Sri Lanka.
- Includes healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Provides a collaborative culture focused on innovation, quality, continuous improvement, diversity, and professional growth.
- Offers opportunities for training, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and participation in charitable volunteering.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureBashDatadogDockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMavenPowerShellPythonSQLTerraform
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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.