Platform Principal Engineer, London Stock Exchange
Office located in Paternoster Square, London
Stock exchange in the City of London
Open for applications
Stock exchange in the City of London
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Paternoster Square, London
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in declarative policy language, context-aware and expressive, architectural flexibility, and coordinated development tools
- Experience with Azure policies and security guardrails
- Knowledge of IaC concepts and cloud technology across CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Implementation experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and DevSecOps concepts
- Understanding of architecture principles and design methodologies
- Ability to engage with senior development, infrastructure, and architecture team members
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, code scanning tools, secrets management, Docker, and programming languages (Java/JavaScript, C#, Python)
- Proven experience in leading enterprise/platform engineering teams
- Proven experience with Open Policy Agent
- Demonstrated ability in programming (see preferred languages above)
- Demonstrated ability in DevOps automation across various technologies
- Demonstrated ability to work at an enterprise organization implementing large-scale, advanced technology solutions
- 5+ years of hands-on experience across cloud services SDLC tools, specifically CI/CD tools (open-source or commercial)
- Validated experience in shift-left approaches
- Validated experience in working with open-source projects for due diligence, building proof of concepts, and onboarding to enterprise through the portfolio process
- This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership, and teamwork skills to drive the success of our One Policy Engine initiative
What the job involves
- Specialization: In building enterprise solutions with hosted and SaaS-based services for cloud platforms
- As the Principle Engineer, you will provide engineering solutions for unified policy engine platform's development, implementation, and optimisation
- Your mission is to create seamless, secure, scalable, and efficient enterprise cloud compliance solutions
- You will collaborate with multifunctional teams, embrace DevSecOps practices, leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, and promote the shift-left approach
- Your role spans the entire project lifecycle—from assembling requirements to production deployment—and includes generating and refining developer-focused resources such as cloud architecture patterns, CI/CD pipeline templates, automated testing, and code scanning
- Develop and implement enterprise-level operating models, SSO, RBAC, and workflows
- Build design patterns, modules, and libraries to integrate SDLC processes into the CI/CD pipeline
- Provide technical expertise in automation engineering, coding, and architecture issues
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering/Ops and Dev Tools on DevSecOps automation-related issues
- Collaborate with versatile teams to architect and deploy cloud solutions
- Choose the appropriate cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) based on project requirements
- Use IaC tools like Terraform to build and handle cloud resources
- Embed security considerations early in the development process (Shift Left Approach)
- Automate security checks using tools to scan code, implement coding standards, and lead dependencies securely
- Integrate security practices throughout the CI/CD pipeline
- Set up GitLab repositories and configure CI/CD for Terraform deployments
- Understand GitLab Runners and Artifacts
- Optimize Terraform files and structures
- Follow Terraform coding conventions
- Maintain version-controlled Terraform code
- Implement policies related to infrastructure, security, and compliance using OPA
- Lead all aspects of infrastructure monitoring and management
- Set up monitoring, build alarms, and create dashboards for critical metrics
- Manage logs efficiently
- Conduct investigations and maturity assessments of current DevOps practices
- Define and apply automation architecture principles
- Develop automation solutions for Cloud (IaC - Terraform), CI/CD pipelines (YAML), and Quality Engineering (QE) processes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, with a history dating back over 300 years. It operates as a part of LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets infrastructure, as a marketplace to enable stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
The London Stock Exchange has lived through a stream of innovations; from telegraph and telephone, to the Market Price Display System, automatic trade matching, and the digitisation of issuer services. In 2019 it acquired Refinitiv, a financial information company, and in doing so became a global financial news and data business.
Most recently, the London Stock Exchange has made moves to support the evolution of private markets, and further build its presence in this space. It partnered with Floww, a platform that connects investors with private companies, with aims to launch a private primary capital raising facility, as well as explore new technologies and secondary market options for the platform.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2019
$26.5m
LATE VC
Feb 2018
$26.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $53m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working options
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO, not founder)Was Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for 20 years.
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