Cloud Engineer Ops (VMware, AWS, Azure, Google)

About the role

LSEG's LCH SA Infrastructure & Cloud Team, which supports Post Trade Business Services, is looking for a Cloud Engineer Ops to design, deploy and maintain resilient, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure. The role works closely with development teams, operations and partners to keep critical environments performing well.

Key responsibilities

• Implement, tune and administer the infrastructure layer, improving the lifecycle of services from design through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Lead support services before launch: system design consulting, feature development, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Mentor colleagues on availability, performance, automation and automated responses.
• Monitor availability, latency and system health after services go live and lead incident response.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and advocate for reliability and velocity improvements.
• Write optimized code for LCH SA and LSEG products, and support workflows, data pipelines, business policies and configurations.
• Design, deploy and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure with security and compliance standards, covering IaaS and PaaS services (compute, storage, database, security).
• Build operational tools for deployment, monitoring and analysis, and develop automation scripts and frameworks.
• Use infrastructure-as-code tools to automate deployment, configuration and maintenance.
• Estimate resource requirements, plan for growth and ensure scalability.
• Design backup and recovery strategies, and take part in incident management, root cause analysis and resolution.
• Embed in cloud projects and on-call rotations, and work on edge cases, failure modes and specific implementations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years as a Cloud Engineer, SRE or similar role managing cloud infrastructure in regulated or highly available environments.
• At least 5 years of distributed system design experience.
• At least 5 years of Linux/Unix and Windows Server experience.
• At least 5 years of systems monitoring and capacity management.
• At least 2 years of experience in a regulated environment with specific security constraints.
• Adherence to risk control frameworks, policies and procedures.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google (at least 5 years)
• Scripting: Python, Bash (at least 3 years)
• Automation and configuration management: Terraform or equivalent, Ansible, Puppet, Chef (at least 3 years)
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous
• VMware experience is a plus