Job Description

Role Profile
In this role, you will be joining our Cloud SRE team within Cloud & Productivity Engineering as an SRE Azure Engineer.
This team focuses on applying software Engineering practices to IT operations tasks to maintain and improve the availability, scalability and reliability of our Cloud platform hosting LSEG applications.
We strive to improve automation and increase the systems' self-healing capabilities. We monitor, measure and optimize the platform's performance, pushing our capabilities forward, exceeding our customer needs. We also work alongside architects, developers, and engineers to ensure efficient enterprise scale Azure Landing Zone platforms and products, while playing an active involvement in decision making areas such as automation, scalability, capacity, reliability, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance
Tech Profile/Essential Skills

• Proven 5 years' experience in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on Azure Platform Landing Zones and services
• Relevant Azure certification such as Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Gitlab.
• 3 years demonstrable experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and repositories.
• Experience working in Agile environments, with a demonstrable experience of Agile principles, ceremonies and practices.
• Experience implementing and managing platform and product observability including dashboarding, logging, monitoring, alerting and tracing with Datadog or Azure native tooling.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Solid working knowledge in setting up enterprise scale Azure Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills, root cause analysis, and incident/service management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
• Sound understanding of financial institutes and markets.

Education and Professional Skills

• Relevant Professional qualifications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Engineer, maintain and optimize hybrid Azure Platform and Services, focusing on automation, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineering teams, architects, and other cross-functional teams to enhance reliability in the build and release stages for the Azure Platform and products.
• Develop and deploy automation tools and frameworks to reduce toil and improve our automation
• Guide teams in Cloud products and services, such as compute, networking, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Adhere to best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Continuously seek areas of improvement, solving technical issues, and providing innovative solutions.
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs.
• Create and maintain up-to-date comprehensive documentation for landing zone components, processes, and procedures.
• Provide a high level of customer service and critical thinking while under pressure.
• Follow and adhere to established ITSM processes and procedures (Incident, Request, Change and Problem Management)

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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