DevOps & Environment Lead (AWS / Cloud Platforms)

As DevOps & Environment Manager at FTSE Russell (LSEG), you will lead automation and provisioning for AWS-based environments, setting standards and building tooling to enable fast, reliable environment spin-up and teardown. You’ll own post-deployment validation, health checks, and monitoring with low noise, ensuring secure and scalable cloud platforms. You will mentor DevOps engineers and partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to deliver end-to-end environment lifecycle automation. This role offers impact in a cloud-first setup with a focus on operational excellence and security. A meaningful hook is shaping resilient, scalable infrastructure that underpins FTSE Russell’s market-.

• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

• Deliver end-to-end environment lifecycle automation
• Create templates and standards for consistent environment creation
• Build monitoring dashboards, pipelines, and alerting rules
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and deployments
• Ensure environments meet security and compliance standards
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation
• Establish environment strategy and standards across AWS
• Automate environment setup, teardown, and configuration using IaC
• Integrate automated post-deployment validation and health checks into CI/CD
• Manage and mentor DevOps engineers

• 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
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana
• Knowledge of ELK/Opensearch, Python, Shell

• collaborative
• customer-driven
• technically courageous
• AWS
• Terraform
• CloudFormation