Site Reliability Engineer - Electronic Trading Team

About the role

LSEG is evolving its Reliability Engineering team and is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Electronic Trading (ET) team. You will own the availability, performance and scalability of a highly configurable, component-based FX dealing system used by major financial institutions worldwide. The platform is delivered as isolated client instances and supports direct electronic trading via web interfaces, connectivity adapters and APIs.

Key responsibilities

• Own and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the systems you support, and continuously measure and improve availability and overall system health.
• Develop automation to scale systems sustainably and prevent or mitigate service issues.
• Partner with development teams to improve reliability, observability and release velocity.
• Take part in on-call rotations, incident response, post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis.
• Promote strong engineering practices for building, deploying and operating high-performance services.
• Support cloud migration, working with operations and engineering teams from project inception to operational readiness.
• Conduct architectural reviews, support operational acceptance testing, and configure Datadog dashboards and metrics.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related technical field involving software or systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, C# and Python.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with one of the following cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes.
• Preferred: experience with DevOps concepts and way of working, and with algorithms and data structures.

Required skills

• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, etc.).
• Understanding of Linux and cloud environments.
• Knowledge of working with financial trading systems is an advantage.
• Observability practices with logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Infrastructure as Code.