Lead Platform Engineer

This Platform Engineer role is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career across a variety of leading or new technologies within the container platform, integration or network connectivity group reporting into a strategic Product team! This group is responsible for specialised infrastructure and cloud platform services required globally across LSEG. We are embarking on an exciting transformation of our real-time market data applications onto a new advanced latency-optimised container platform and need innovative problem solvers to help us deliver this capability. This is a technical position for someone who can dive deep, build on-premise, hybrid or cloud-optimised IT infrastructure services that will support our real time high-performance container-based workloads. The role involves elements of design, build engineering, complex migration planning and consultation to deliver business related outcomes in an agile manner. As well as a proven technical background, the ideal candidate must be able to participate effectively in multi-functional meetings, clearly articulate sophisticated technical and capabilities, translate business requirements into technical requirements, and ultimately, into outcomes that are fit for purpose and use. Collaboration is key, as you will be helping LSEG to deliver all the platform infrastructure build, configuration, tooling, observability, and lifecycle management activities as code.

• Owning the production operation of Kubernetes and hybrid cloud platforms, including reliability, performance and stability.
• Implementing and evolving monitoring, alerting and observability across Kubernetes clusters and supporting infrastructure.
• Analysing platform behaviour under load, identifying risks and driving proactive improvements.
• Supporting incident response, root cause analysis and post incident actions for Kubernetes based services.
• Partnering with platform engineers and application teams to ensure production readiness and smooth onboarding.
• Improving automation, runbooks and operational tooling to reduce manual intervention.
• Acting as a Kubernetes production SME, advising on best practice and operational standards.
• Influencing platform roadmaps through data driven operational insights.

• Proven enterprise Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud native network engineering experience on large production environments.
• Strong experience operating large scale Linux based platforms in production, ideally within hybrid or cloud native environments.
• Solid understanding of containerised workloads and Kubernetes environments from an operational perspective.
• Experience diagnosing performance, latency and availability issues across complex distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git based workflows.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, scripting).
• Strong problem structuring skills and the ability to communicate technical issues clearly to both engineering and non technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working across multiple workstreams and responding to operational priorities when required.
• Experience with Agile delivery environments and tools such as Jira, Confluence and GitLab.

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