Azure Engineering Lead Manager

Posted 15 April by eFinancialCareers
Competitive salary
London , South East England
Permanent, full-time
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Azure Engineering Lead, Mgr - Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) In this role, you'll be joining our Azure Engineering team within Cloud Productivity & Engineering (CPE) as an Azure Engineering Lead, Mgr reporting directly to the Director for Azure Engineering. This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how LSEG leverages the cloud platform. Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities. Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zone platforms. Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance. Tech Profile/Essential Skills • Previous experience leading and mentoring Cloud teams/Communities of Practice. • Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams/comunities of practice. • 8 plus years' experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions. • Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and hands on experience with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework. • Prior experience in roles such as Azure administration, development, or Azure-focused DevOps. • Familiarity with Azure cloud native components. • 5 years' demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines. • Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices. • Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab. • Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams. Preferred Skills and Experience • Proven track record working in agile environments • 8 years' hands on experience with Windows/Linux Servers. • Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting. • Sound understanding of financial markets. Education and Professional Skills • Relevant Professional qualifications. • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM degree. Detailed Responsibilities • Lead and guide multiple communities of practices, including Lead Platform Enginerring managers and platform engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes. • Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the communitiy of practice leads and teams; the why", the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc. • Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog. • Lead key strategic projects/iniatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable opporational excellence. • Ensure feedback and learnings are obtained and utilsed as early and often as possible. • Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security and automation. • Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of Azure Landing Zone platform. • Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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

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