DevOps & Environment Lead (AWS / Cloud Platforms)

About the role

FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of LSEG, is looking for a DevOps & Environment Manager to lead the automation, configuration, deployment and operational excellence of end-to-end environments in its AWS-based cloud ecosystem. The role sets standards, builds the tooling and frameworks to spin up and down environments reliably, ensures integrated post-deployment checks run consistently and oversees monitoring and alerting with low noise and high fidelity. It is a manager-level position.

Key responsibilities

• Establish environment strategy and standards across AWS.
• Automate environment setup, teardown and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
• Integrate automated post-deployment validation and health checks into CI/CD.
• Build monitoring dashboards, pipelines and alerting rules with minimal false positives.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Ensure environments meet security and compliance standards.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation.
• Manage and mentor DevOps engineers and partner with Engineering, Product and Operations teams.

Required profile

• Strong experience managing and automating cloud environments on AWS.
• Expertise in CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and SRE methodologies.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.

Required skills

• AWS
• Terraform and CloudFormation
• GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
• CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Geneos
• ELK/OpenSearch, Python and Shell scripting