Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Role Profile

LSEG's Post Trade Technology Division is having an internship opportunity in DevOps Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within our team in Colombo. As a key member of our dynamic team, you will get to play a role in driving the implementation of SRE practices across Post Trade teams.  

The candidate will get to work closely with development, operations, and security teams to design, build, automate processes, streamline workflows, and improve resilience & efficiency.  

They would be required to work on morning, day or night shift based on UK time according to the monthly roster and expected to work from the office covering at least 3 days per week in hybrid mode. Out-of-hours support overnight and across weekends and bank holidays may be needed.  

Interest in building strong business knowledge in addition to technical skills is valuable for working with business teams during investigations. They need to work closely with domain experts and build understanding of the underlying technologies used by the applications.  

Must be self-motivating with the ability to prioritize work and should be able to learn and adapt to fast paced environment.  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with Dev/Test/BA scrums for releases, manage daily batch operations, and oversee environment maintenance, ensuring seamless deployment from test to production in an agile environment. 
• Drive bug fixes, enhancements, and technical solutions for London Clearing House (LCH) products, ensuring high-quality delivery. 
• Manage and optimize regular environment builds from GitLab pipelines, improving efficiency and automation. 
• Ensure all activities are performed to ITIL standards, following LCH/LSEG policies, procedures, and best practices. 
• Coordinate the release process for new releases, ensuring smooth deployment. 
• Automate and maintain robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalability and performance of all related processes. 
• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions for distributed systems to ensure reliability and performance of applications.  
• Design solutions for longer term fixes for application bugs and small functionality enhancement requests  
• Lead application fixes and ensures timely deployment of patches and improvements. 
• Lead code management through GitLab/Bitbucket, ensuring clean, high-quality, and versioned source code. 
• Update documentation and relevant Wiki entries with changes and new procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and team alignment. 
• Maintain a strong working relationship with business teams, business management, and cross-functional application support teams. 
• Support weekend releases and maintenance work, ensuring availability and system stability 
• Take ownership of regular project-related tasks, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with project timelines. 

Candidate Profile / Key Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (IT, Software Engineering, or Computer Science) 
• Minimum 4 years of industry experience in SRE/App support/DevOps/Software Engineering or in a similar technology-based role 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships. 
• Effective communication skills in English 
• Hands-on UNIX/Linux System Administration skills, with hands-on experience managing complex environments. 
• Hands-on scripting (Bash/Shell scripting) with a focus on automation and efficiency. 
• Hands-on Oracle Database/SQL query writing skills, with experience optimizing and troubleshooting large-scale databases. 
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Ansible, with proven experience building and optimizing automated workflows. 
• Good understanding of the product development lifecycle, agile methodologies, scrum practices and best practices in software engineering. 
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab), including code branching, merging, and release management. 
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, provide guidance on best practices and foster continuous learning. 
• Exposure to Geneos, Control-M, Murex, IBM MQ, Python, DataDog, PowerShell, GitLab, AWS Cloud Technologies and Jenkins will be an added advantage.  

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.

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