Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

London Stock Exchange | Greater London, ENG, GB

Posted 16 days ago

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Description

Responsibilities

  • We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
  • This role is heavily focused on enabling data platforms—including Databricks, Event Hubs, and Azure Storage—through infrastructure-as-code, automation, and modern DevOps practices
  • You will work closely with engineering, data, and platform teams to streamline deployment pipelines, ensure reliability of data services, and support both real-time and batch data workloads
  • Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions using Terraform (Infrastructure-as-Code)
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and data platforms
  • Deploy and support Azure-native data services including Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2, Blob)
  • Manage and optimize SQL-based systems (Azure SQL / PostgreSQL / related platforms)
  • Automate operational tasks using Bash scripting and other scripting tools
  • Administer and maintain Linux-based environments
  • Monitor system performance, reliability, and costs; implement improvements and optimizations
  • Ensure security, compliance, and governance across all Azure resources
  • Work with development and data engineering teams to enable DevOps best practices
  • Troubleshoot production issues and ensure high availability of critical systems
  • Support real-time data pipelines and streaming architectures

Qualifications

  • CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar)
  • Strong hands‑on experience with: Terraform (mandatory)
  • Knowledge of security best practices in Azure (RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault)
  • Solid experience with Linux system administration
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting skills
  • Proficiency in SQL (querying, performance tuning, data workflows)
  • Infrastructure automation and configuration management
  • Experience with data‑centric platforms: Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2 / Blob)
  • Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring, logging, and alerting tools like Datadog, Splunk, etc.
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • Microsoft Azure (core services + networking + security)
  • Development experience with streaming data architectures and event‑driven systems
  • Familiarity with data lake / Lakehouse based big data systems and architectures
  • Experience in high‑throughput, low‑latency environments
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