Job Description
About the London Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for the trading of industrial metals – the majority of all non-ferrous metal futures business is transacted on our platforms.
Last year, 149 million lots were traded, equating to $15 trillion and 3.5 billion tonnes notional, with a market open interest high of 1.9 million lots.
A member of HKEX Group, the LME brings together participants from the physical industry and the financial community to create a robust and regulated market where there is always a buyer and a seller, where there is always a price and where there is always the opportunity to transfer or take on risk – 24 hours a day.
Investors value the LME as a vibrant futures exchange but also for its close links to industry. The possibility of physical delivery via the world-wide network of LME-approved warehouses makes it the perfect hedging venue for industry and provides a reference price they trust.
The Exchange provides producers and consumers of metal with a physical market of last resort and, most importantly, with the ability to hedge against the risk of rising and falling world metal prices.
Overall Purpose of Role:
The purpose of this role is to create the LME’s IAAS vision of the future including the adoption of Kubernetes based technologies and other automation tools to allow us to manage our hardware and environments using industry leading tooling.
The role includes owning our private cloud infrastructure, including across the low latency estate, owning the strategy and usage patterns for public cloud within the LME and building out a future where all our infrastructure is software defined.
Responsibilities:
You will set the technical direction across the DevSecOps team for the delivery of our strategic private cloud infrastructure. Including:
* Building out the Private Cloud technical solution
* Defining an Api driven approach to our infrastructure
* Defining the optimal usage patterns for our Kubernetes clusters
* Defining the strategy for containers vs Virtual machines across the LME
* Incorporating all the necessary control gates and security infrastructure (secrets management, encryption at rest, encryption in transit etc..)
* Adding low latency capabilities to the cloud infrastructure
* Helping to migrate our critical trading applications onto the infrastructure
* Integrating with vendors for a fully code driven approach to IAAS
* Helping us raise utilization of our hardware estate to 60-70%
* Facilitate our engineers being able to setup and tear down development environments on demand as required
* Taking our solution through to our production estate
Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:
* Preferred - Bachelors or Master’s Degree (Computer Science or Related Degree, Maths or Physics also considered)
Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:
* Degree in Computer Science, IT or related disciplines.
* Minimum 15 years’ experience in software development in Java or C++
* Deep understanding of cloud infrastructures, usage patterns, across at least one major cloud vendor
Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:
* Ability to implement complex network topologies (multicast) in cloud technologies.
* Deep technical understand of containers and Kubernetes (5-10 years)
* Ability to implement controls in code to meet regulatory and audit requirements
* Ability to optimize processes to maximize engineer productivity.
* Ability to expose authenticated Api’s and for all our infrastructure.
* Ability to implement low latency architectures in Kubernetes, ContainerD (core pinning, kernel bypass)
* Deep knowledge of monitoring & observability in cloud infrastructures
* Deep knowledge of low latency, garbage free messaging systems
Personal Qualities:
* Ability to work under pressure with changing priorities, with a view to resolving issues innovatively, and meeting key stakeholders expectations.
* A dynamic and self-motivated attitude
* Accountable and proactive
* Able to provide leadership and motivate team demonstrating strong interpersonal skills
* Must display strong analytical skills and attention for detail
The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.
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