Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Role Summary:

Join LSEG Capital Markets Technology and help shape the future of trading technology. We’re looking for an experienced DevOps lead to support TRADEcho, our MiFID II reporting services, hosted on AWS and operated by the London Stock Exchange Group.

The team provides cover (onsite in Sri Lanka) from 2am through to 6pm (UK Time) Monday to Friday with the late shift being performed by on call. There is occasional weekend work required as Saturdays are used to test and roll forward software releases.
 

What You’ll Do:

• Lead DevOps practices within a development pod, ensuring resilience, scalability, and automation.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring solutions.
• Support production environments on AWS and on-prem, including Level 2 support and occasional on-call/weekend work.
• Mentor a small team of DevOps engineers and drive continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
• Strong Scripting in AWS and Kubernetes expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Ansible), and scripting (Bash/Python).
• Ability to design solutions for complex systems and guide teams on deployment best practices.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with modern tooling (DataDog, GitLab, ServiceNow), networking diagnostics, and Agile practices.
• AWS certifications and financial services background.

Main Responsibilities

• Act as operational SME for the product while also gaining a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructure and operations toolset
• Partner with the business and technology
• Gain an in-depth knowledge of the departments processes and ensure compliance with these processes with focus on driving down incidents and problems while delivering changes
• Support development changes, providing accurate estimates for time and capital costs, attending project meetings and analysing impact for proposed project work
• Proactively identify operational risks. Provide short term solutions whilst supervising long term resolution.
• Provide operational impacts and inputs into architectural design
   

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.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

Career Stage:

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.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.