IT & Software

Platform Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you design, build and maintain scalable Azure-based cloud infrastructure to support data platforms. You will collaborate with engineering, data and platform teams to streamline deployments, ensure data service reliability and support real-time and batch workloads. You’ll implement infrastructure-as-code, automate tasks, and enforce security and governance. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape high-performing data ecosystems at a global financial markets leader.

Pay / Benefits
  • healthcare
  • retirement planning
  • paid volunteering days
  • wellbeing initiatives
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and data platforms
  • Deploy and support Azure-native data services (Databricks, Event Hubs, Storage)
  • Manage and optimize SQL-based systems (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Automate operational tasks with Bash and other scripting tools
  • Administer Linux-based environments
  • Monitor performance, reliability and costs with optimization
  • Ensure security, compliance and governance across Azure resources
  • Collaborate with development and data teams to implement DevOps best practices
  • Troubleshoot production issues and ensure high availability
  • Support real-time data pipelines and streaming architectures
Key requirements
  • Terraform (mandatory)
  • Microsoft Azure (core services, networking, security)
  • Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2 / Blob)
  • Proficiency in SQL (querying, performance tuning, data workflows)
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting
  • Linux system administration
  • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Azure security practices (RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault)
  • CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps or similar)
  • Git version control
  • Infrastructure automation and configuration management
  • Monitoring, logging, alerting (Datadog, Splunk)
  • Terraform
  • Azure
  • Azure Databricks
  • Azure Event Hubs
  • Azure Storage
  • SQL

Reference: WJ-747_30175203

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