Observability & Event Intelligence - Senior Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group8 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Enforce observability governance, standards, guardrails, identity and access controls, and platform reliability.
- Develop and implement features for LSEG’s observability and event intelligence platform.
- Implement OpenTelemetry for standardized instrumentation, distributed tracing, and metrics collection.
- Deploy and configure Datadog, BigPanda, Cribl, Splunk, and ServiceNow integrations.
- Provide self-service onboarding and offboarding, platform limit management, L3 support, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Automate provisioning and integrations using Terraform, Python, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and shell scripting.
- Explore observability products, conduct proofs of concept, create implementation roadmaps, and optimize platform usage and cost.
- Collaborate with cloud, tooling, application, operations, and vendor engineering teams and develop support procedures.
Requirements
- 10–12 years of experience in technology development with strong exposure to cloud environments.
- 2–3 years of experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or similar products.
- Experience implementing and supporting open-source systems including ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Vector, and Jaeger.
- Hands-on experience with Datadog, BigPanda, Splunk, and ServiceNow integrations.
- Strong proficiency in GitLab, Terraform, Python, CI/CD, and shell scripting.
- Strong cloud knowledge, particularly Azure followed by AWS.
- Experience developing scalable monitoring, logging, and observability standards for hundreds of application teams in a cost-optimized manner.
- Experience integrating systems, metrics, logs, and applications with monitoring and APM tools and building real-time dashboards and analytics.
- Professional qualification or equivalent in cloud engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; experience with ITSM, ITIL, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience with New Relic and Grafana-Prometheus is beneficial.
Benefits
- Blended/digital-first hybrid work arrangement.
- Continuous learning opportunities and a collaborative, growth-oriented culture.
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Flexible work arrangements may be discussed.
- Equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation for religious, mental health, and disability needs.
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.