Senior Lead Observability Engineer
LSEG · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- On site
- Full-time
- $150,000 / year
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job highlights
- Build and standardize observability platforms.
- Promote observability standards across the organization.
- Collaborate with and mentor engineering teams.
- Instrument applications and automate infrastructure.
- Analyze data to improve system performance.
About the role
About the Role
We’re seeking talented DevOps, Site Reliability Engineers, or Platform Engineers who want to join us to build an outstanding observability team. You will use your experience and technological skills to help us build a centralized observability team. The role involves collaborating with development teams to instrument services, promoting standard methodologies for observability, and improving product quality and performance. You will work alongside various leadership, development, product managers, and operations teams to bring insight from observability data to drive customer experience improvement.
Our key principle is "Measure What Matters", specifically, what matters to our customers. Measuring infrastructure is less meaningful to customers than measuring whether our services are available, fast enough, or reliable enough. This can be implemented through tracing, real user monitoring, synthetic tests, metrics collection, and SLOs, all in terms of customer impact. Measuring infrastructure has a place but is secondary and should drive avoidance or recovery activities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and standardize observability platforms: Build and standardize implementations for logging, metrics, and tracing to ensure insight into system health.
- Promote guidelines: Advocate for and help establish observability standards and guidelines across the organization.
- Collaborate and mentor: Partner with other engineering teams and mentor engineers to improve their understanding of observability tools and practices.
- Instrument applications and services: Work with engineers to add telemetry to applications, using techniques like distributed tracing and structured logging.
- Develop dashboards and alerts: Build dashboards to visualize system data and configure automated alerting to proactively detect issues.
- Automate infrastructure: Use tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of observability infrastructure.
- Improve system performance: Analyze performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize system reliability and performance.
- Analyze telemetry data during incidents to help identify root causes and reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Work under direction of leadership, detailing the business requirements and specifications vital to acquire and implement solutions.
Skills And Qualifications
- Expertise within various Monitoring/Observability tools such as DataDog, BigPanda.
- Expertise configuring and testing Monitoring and/or Observability platforms with IaaS, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet.
- Expertise with CI/CD development pipelines such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub, or similar development tools.
- Expertise with implementing and maintaining monitoring platforms such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Experience operating, crafting, and building large scale enterprise/production grade systems.
- Experience with Agile practices and tooling such as Daily standup, Retrospective, Kanban, Scrum, Jira.
Company Information
Proud to share LSEG in India is Great Place to Work certified (Jun ’25 – Jun ’26). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from India colleagues’ video: Bengaluru, India | Where We Work | LSEG.
Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision-making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
Key skills/competency
- Senior Lead Observability Engineer
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Observability Platforms (DataDog, BigPanda)
- Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub)
- System Performance Analysis
- Incident Management (MTTR)
Skills & topics
- Senior Lead Observability Engineer
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Observability
- Monitoring
- DataDog
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- System Performance
- Incident Management
- SRE
- Cloud Monitoring
- Telemetry
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience with observability tools like DataDog, BigPanda, Prometheus, and Grafana, and IaC like Terraform and Ansible.
- Showcase CI/CD expertise: Emphasize your skills with GitLab, Jenkins, or GitHub in your application.
- Demonstrate system building experience: Detail your background in operating, crafting, and building large-scale enterprise systems.
- Prepare for behavioral questions: Reflect on your experience with Agile methodologies and how you've mentored teams.
- Research LSEG: Understand their values (Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, Change) and purpose to align your answers.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the key technical skills for the Senior Lead Observability Engineer role at LSEG?
- The Senior Lead Observability Engineer role at LSEG requires expertise in various monitoring and observability tools like DataDog and BigPanda, along with experience in IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible. Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub) and monitoring platforms (Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana) is crucial. Experience with large-scale enterprise systems and Agile practices is also highly valued.
- How does LSEG approach observability and customer experience?
- LSEG's core principle is 'Measure What Matters' to customers, focusing on service availability, speed, and reliability rather than just infrastructure metrics. They utilize tracing, real user monitoring, synthetic tests, metrics collection, and SLOs to gain customer-centric insights and improve their experience.
- What is the career stage for this Senior Lead Observability Engineer position?
- The career stage for this position is listed as 'Manager', indicating a leadership and mentorship component to the role within the observability team.
- What kind of company culture can I expect at LSEG?
- LSEG fosters a collaborative and creative culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. They are committed to diversity, equal opportunities, and sustainability, with a strong emphasis on integrity, partnership, excellence, and change.
- What are the benefits of working at LSEG as a Senior Lead Observability Engineer?
- LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives. Employees are part of a dynamic global organization and are encouraged to bring their true selves to work.
- How important is automation in this Senior Lead Observability Engineer role?
- Automation is a key responsibility for this role. You will use tools like Terraform and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of observability infrastructure, contributing to efficiency and reliability.
- What does LSEG's 'Measure What Matters' principle mean for this role?
- This principle means focusing observability efforts on metrics that directly impact customer experience, such as service availability and performance, rather than solely on underlying infrastructure. Your work will directly contribute to understanding and improving customer satisfaction.