Senior Linux DevOps Engineer

About the role

LSEG is building the next generation of capital markets technology and is looking for a Senior Linux DevOps Engineer to join its team managing the data pipeline that captures, stores and transforms capital markets data. The role has a large operational component and also requires someone to think ahead about growth in utilization and technology selection.

Required profile

• 5 to 7+ years of professional experience with Linux, preferably RHEL or RHEL-derived distributions (CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux)
• 5+ years of experience scripting Python
• Expert use of Ansible to develop and maintain playbooks and roles for server provisioning and configuration management
• Comfortable with data copying, scheduling tasks and Linux daemons
• Extensive experience with application deployments and OS updates, including risk assessment and mitigation of potential failures
• Experience designing, deploying and managing containerized applications in production
• Experience with Git-based version control (GitLab and/or GitHub) and managing pipelines in these tools
• Basic networking knowledge and ability to interpret Wireshark/tcpdump capture output
• English proficiency required
• Willingness to work US Eastern shift during the first 6 months of training and on some weekends when needed for deployments

Required skills

• Linux server architecture, operation, performance and latency tuning
• Python scripting
• Ansible
• Docker, Podman or other containerization technology
• Nice to have: knowledge of US and international market data, multicast-based market data distribution, AWS, S3, AWS CLI and Rsync