Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer, London Stock Exchange
Stock exchange in the City of London
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Stock exchange in the City of London
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- Hands on Kubernetes engineering experience in production environments with hands on involvement in building, operating and evolving cluster-level capbilities
- Strong experience writing production-grade automation and tooling in GO, particularly for Kubernetes-related components (e.g. operators, controllers, extensions or internal platform tooling)
- Solid understanding of Linux networking fundamentals and container networking internals
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployment pipelines, Git-based workflows, and automated testing principles
- Strong recent Linux (especially Ubuntu) experience
- Exposure to monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting across containerised workloads
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jira, Confluence)
- Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or scripting languages
- Understanding of performance tuned or latency sensitive environments (preferred but not required)
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
- Strong analytical and problem solving ability in complex system environments
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
What the job involves
- This is an exceptional opportunity to join a high impact engineering team delivering the next generation of LSEG’s latency optimised, real time market data platforms
- You will be working at the forefront of Kubernetes platform engineering, helping shape and evolve our hybrid cloud container ecosystem
- As part of the specialised container platform, integration, and network connectivity engineering group, you will contribute to the design, development, and lifecycle management of globally consumed infrastructure services
- This team plays a central role in our strategic transformation, where innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning are highly valued
- We are looking for engineers who thrive in fast moving, complex environments, are self motivated, and enjoy solving deep technical problems
- This role offers the chance to work with emerging technologies while contributing real engineering impact in an area undergoing rapid evolution
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and enhancement of Kubernetes based container platform components, with a focus on CNI, networking, and cluster-level integrations
- Lead delivery of engineering tasks for Kubernetes platform features across development, test, and production environments
- Implement, configure, and validate CNI solutions (e.g., Cilium), network policies, and associated platform capabilities
- Drive high quality engineering practices including testing, documentation, peer reviews, and CI/CD automation
- Act as a domain specialist in Kubernetes and CNI networking, guiding team members and partnering with adjacent engineering squads
- Provide technical input into platform architecture, backlog refinement, and feasibility assessments
- Assist application teams onboarding to the container platform, providing guidance on networking, cluster usage, and deployment patterns
- Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across multilayered network and container environments
- Contribute to platform reliability and observability improvements through dashboards, run-books, and automation
- Evaluate new tools, technologies, and approaches and present findings to the wider engineering community
- Operate effectively in an agile, iterative delivery model
- Manage multiple work streams and priorities in a dynamic environment
- Uphold engineering standards and advocate for platform quality, stability, and scalability
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
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO)Prior to joining LSEG in 2018, David was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for over 20 years.
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