Lead Engineer - Kubernetes

About the role

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is seeking a highly skilled Lead Technical Engineer with deep experience in Kubernetes and the CNCF landscape. You will be a key contributor to the design, implementation and maintenance of the Kubernetes infrastructure, ensuring its scalability, reliability and security, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers. The role suits a versatile engineering lead or principal with experience building cloud platforms and leading software engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters and associated infrastructure components.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, and foster collaboration and continuous learning.
• Drive innovation and best practices in cloud infrastructure design and implementation.
• Build a team of Agile delivery leads, cloud engineers and consulting partners that design and build platform shared services and secure landing zones.
• Ensure software engineering standards and modern SDLC practices are maintained, and act as the technical authority for Kubernetes.
• Understand security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking.
• Work with internal teams such as Product Owners, and give guidance on cloud budget management and optimisation.
• Own the delivery backlog for the Kubernetes container team.
• Identify improvements in processes, tools and workflows, stay current with industry trends, and collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers and system administrators.

Required profile

• Proven experience with cloud-native technologies on at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of people management experience building teams and leading engineers.
• Hands-on experience in software development methodologies and Agile delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and managing Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing principles, preferably with AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• CKA, CKAD and CKS certifications preferred.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.