Senior Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

Lead the establishment of SRE foundations for new projects building environments, monitoring, alerting, and ensuring operational readiness from day one.

Define, implement, and champion observability standards, tooling, and guidelines across metrics, logs, traces, and SLIs/SLOs.

Design and evolve monitoring and alerting solutions that improve visibility, reduce toil, and strengthen system health.

Continuously drive reliability improvements across our environments through incident reduction, performance tuning, and building resilient patterns.

Partner with Security teams to ensure our platforms meet compliance, security, and risk‑management expectations.

Lead seamless handovers from project delivery into BAU SRE operations by ensuring documentation, readiness, and strong operational practices.

Be a technical leader and mentor supporting engineers, shaping engineering standards, and fostering a culture of learning and development.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Required skills and experience

5+ years of hands-on technical experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or related roles

Strong experience with Azure, including services such as AKS, Azure Container Apps, Virtual Machines, virtual networking (VNet), Azure Active Directory (Entra ID), and Azure managed services

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized platforms

Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms, including monitoring, logging, and alerting

Hands-on experience with Datadog for metrics, logs, APM, and alerting

Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability engineering

Understanding of cloud security principles and experience collaborating with security teams

Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies and tooling

Good to have Skills

Experience or working knowledge of AWS

Experience supporting multi-cloud or hybrid environments

Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

Experience in large-scale, complex, or regulated environments

Knowledge of vector databases and RAG architectures for building internal SRE knowledge assistants.

Knowledge of Generative AI and LLM platforms (e.g., Claude, Amazon Bedrock)

Experience integrating AI with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) for proactive issue detection.

Person Specification

Strong technical authority with the ability to influence design and operational decisions

Highly collaborative, comfortable working across architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams

Calm and methodical under pressure, especially during incidents and critical issues

Pragmatic problem-solver who balances reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed

Clear communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

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