Principal Kubernetes / Hybrid Cloud Engineer
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The role of Kubernetes / Hybrid Cloud Engineer is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career across a variety of leading or new technologies within the container platform, integration or network connectivity group reporting into a strategic Product team! This group is responsible for specialised infrastructure and cloud platform services required globally across LSEG. We are embarking on an exciting transformation of our real-time market data applications onto a new advanced latency-optimised container platform and need innovative problem solvers to help us deliver this capability.
This is a technical dev-ops engineering position for someone who can dive deep, build on-premise, hybrid or cloud-optimized IT infrastructure services that will support our real time high-performance container-based workloads. The role involves elements of design, build engineering, complex migration planning and consultation to deliver business related outcomes in an agile manner.
As well as a proven technical background, the ideal candidate must be able to participate effectively in multi-functional meetings, clearly articulate sophisticated technical and capabilities, translate business requirements into technical requirements, and ultimately, into outcomes that are fit for purpose and use. Collaboration is key, as you will be helping LSEG to deliver all the platform infrastructure build, configuration, tooling, observability, and lifecycle management activities as code.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
- 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)