Hybrid Principal Kubernetes – Hybrid Cloud Engineer

at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

• Job title: Principal Kubernetes – Hybrid Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal Kubernetes / Hybrid Cloud Engineer at LSEG developing cloud-native container platform for financial markets. Involves engineering, design, and consultancy on Kubernetes solutions.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of Kubernetes and Hybrid Cloud design, build engineering and development activities required to deliver global cloud-native container platform related business outputs.
• Deployment and test planning / execution for container platform capabilities and features.
• Providing design, engineering and code reviews that show an attention to detail and becoming an advocate for quality within the team.
• Become a beacon for Kubernetes / Hybrid Cloud knowledge and upskill other squad members / teams within LSEG.
• Providing good problem structuring and solving skills across complex multi-layered environments and able to work with either vendor or tenant teams to resolve.
• Review and research potential new products; be a champion for these projects within LSEG.
• Be comfortable working in a fluid environment where requirements and priorities may change at short notice.
• Maintain, configure, and validate your Kubernetes Hybrid Cloud Platform development changes across Development, Test and Live environments.
• Providing consultancy to LSEG colleagues who want to deploy their application on to the new platform and help them to onboard as a tenant.
• Speak to the platform architects / product owners, articulating the impact of any current business challenges, issues, or new feature requirements in the container platform networking space.

Requirements

• Real-life (and not theoretical) experience and a real willingness to learn or rapidly grow their skills and capabilities.
• Ability to present to senior management level in fluent business-level English.
• Proven enterprise Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native network engineering experience on large production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience ideally including EKS Kubernetes and Cilium based CNI based skills.
• Knowledge around Kubernetes pipeline driven deployments and automated testing.
• Recent Linux experience, particularly around Ubuntu.
• Experience around monitoring / troubleshooting full-stack platforms particularly Linux based systems and latency or performance optimised applications.
• IP routing and network service knowledge.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Git based pipelines and coding concepts / approaches.
• Accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment across many areas or tasks, with the ability to manage multiple activities against specific timelines.
• Experience with automation Tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Scripting.
• Test Automation (Framework Creation / Establishing a process, Infra Testing)
• Agile / CICD Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab)

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Retirement planning
• Paid volunteering days
• Wellbeing initiatives