Lead DevOps Engineer

About the role

LSEG is looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join the engineering organisation supporting LSEG Workspace, a key platform delivering financial data, analytics, news and workflow capabilities to customers globally. This is a technical leadership role combining hands-on engineering expertise with leadership, responsible for shaping DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms and operational capabilities. The role focuses on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, scalability, resiliency and cost optimisation, and may include an on-call rota and occasional weekend work.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for DevOps, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering supporting LSEG Workspace.
• Design, build and improve highly available, scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms.
• Lead the design and management of Kubernetes container orchestration, including scheduling, autoscaling, resource management and lifecycle management.
• Define containerisation standards (e.g. Docker) and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions (e.g. Terraform).
• Develop and evolve CI/CD pipelines and drive automation across provisioning, deployments and configuration management.
• Establish engineering standards for scalability, availability, disaster recovery and production readiness.
• Improve observability (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) and platform reliability, performance and cloud cost optimisation.
• Integrate security best practices and support investigation of complex production incidents.
• Mentor engineers, define standards and evaluate emerging technologies.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, with proven experience supporting large-scale, business-critical production systems.
• Technical leadership, mentoring and standard-setting experience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence decisions across engineering teams.

Required skills

• Major cloud platform, preferably AWS and/or Azure.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform or comparable IaC tools.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation.
• Cloud networking, IAM, infrastructure security and secrets management.
• Observability via metrics, logging, tracing and monitoring platforms.
• Incident management, root cause analysis and reliability engineering.

Desirable experience

• Amazon EKS, AKS or similar managed Kubernetes, and autoscaling tools such as Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter or HPA.
• OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk or similar observability tools.
• Microservices, distributed systems, regulated or financial-services environments, FinOps and developer platform experience.

What we offer

• 25 days' holiday per year and an extra day off for your birthday.
• Wellness allowance, Share Purchase Plan, medical health insurance, dental coverage and life insurance.
• Pillar 3 private pension, meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Learning opportunities and career development.