TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group18 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms while tracking platform KPIs and improvement opportunities.
- Own platform quality and act as an SRE for non-production environments.
- Support complex application stacks across multiple cloud environments.
- Automate cloud resource deployment for high availability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Track and improve platform running costs as part of the FinOps operating model.
- Develop DevOps best practices and guidance.
- Enable product teams to implement deployment pipelines and strategies from development through production.
- Help teams define processes, run proof of concepts, and select best-fit technical solutions.
- Monitor and improve platform reliability, performance, and security.
- Mentor and develop junior team members while collaborating with cross-functional teams across regions and time zones.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a platform engineer or SRE for cloud-based trading solutions or similarly critical platforms.
- Strong hands-on understanding of infrastructure as code and Terraform for building AWS infrastructure.
- Extensive experience developing or managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitLab.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and deploying applications to Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
- Experience with code analysis and security tools such as Coverity and Black Duck.
- Scripting experience with Groovy, Bash, or Python.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog.
- Experience with Anthos or GKE Enterprise on AWS is preferred.
- Proficiency securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- Experience delivering in scaled Agile environments and using open-source tools.
- Experience collaborating across multiple regions and time zones.
- Experience mentoring junior team members and working in highly regulated financial industries.
- Demonstrated accountability, stakeholder management, communication, delivery excellence, and ability to work with product, architecture, and delivery teams.
Benefits
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Collaborative and inclusive culture with professional development and continuous-improvement support.
- Reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health needs, and physical disabilities.
- Opportunities to participate in fundraising and volunteering through the LSEG Foundation.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.