LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
Role Profile
The Capital Markets business within the London Stock Exchange Group is responsible for the providing Exchange trading systems for the customers. This role sits within the Application Services team in the technology division within Capital Markets. The responsibility of the team is to operate the trading platforms.
The responsibilities of the role include developing the infrastructure and automation to operate new and existing platforms running in AWS.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in AWS cloud technologies as well as modern build, configuration and release management tooling and processes. In addition, some experience and understanding of infrastructure services such as networking and system administration would be useful.
Key Responsibilities
• Own user stories end to end from requirements capturing through development and testing to implementation
• Follow the code life cycle
• Own the implementation of change without adverse impact to continuity of service, adhering to existing change policy and processes, collaborating closely with other business and technical teams where appropriate
• Write and maintain support documentation, technical specifications and user guides.
• Identify and raise operational risks. Provide short term solutions whilst planning and working towards long term resolution.
• Provide technical expertise to the other areas of the group
• Proactively identify and implement operational improvements for processes, performance and reliability
• Work closely with customers, partners and team members to ensure their requirements are met and that they have full visibility of implementation.
• Support development changes, providing accurate estimates for time and capital costs, attending project meetings, analysing impact for proposed project work and sticking to agreed timelines.
• Develop an understanding of procedures and SLAs for all services supported by the team.
Candidate Background And Skills
Key Skills
• Experience in enterprise DevOps
• Familiarity with Linux OS
• Strong coding/scripting experience (BASH/Shell)
• Experience with configuring and using a CI/CD tool such as Jenkins or GitLab
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Bitbucket, Ansible, Terraform or equivalent
• Git source control using Bitbucket or equivalent
• Experience with AWS – AWS API, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route53, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, ADFS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Validated ability to share information and work individually or as part of a team when balancing problems
• Understating of computer networks and underlying protocols
• Pro-active approach to learning about and adapting to new technologies
Preferred Skills
• Understanding of the build and operation of web sites
• Experience in supporting always-on critically important systems
• Appreciation of the business processes and their importance
• Knowledge of agile software development and DevOps philosophies
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with Java, Node.js and Python
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
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