Senior Platform Engineer

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from the Romanian colleagues’ video: Bucharest, Romania | Where We Work | LSEG

Role Description:

• In this role, you'll be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) as a Senior Azure Engineer. This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how LSEG maximises the cloud platform.
• Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
• Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platforms.
• Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

Mandatory:

• 5 years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
• Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud native components.
• 5 years’ demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaS) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal customers, team members, and management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 8 years’ hands on experience with Windows/Linux Servers.
• Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
• Sound understanding of financial markets.
• Adept at collaborating in diverse teams, with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Previous roles involving Azure administration, Azure development, and/or DevOps processes.

Education and Professional Skills:

• Relevant Professional qualifications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Collaborate with Azure Platform engineers, architects, and other partners in the implementation of an Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platform.
• Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, encouraging standard methodologies in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
• Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs. 
• To ensure knowledge articles of all supported systems are continually updated. 
• To provide a high level of customer service, whilst working under pressure. 
• To follow and adhere to established Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management procedures.