LSEG - Senior Application Management Specialist - Linux/Control-M

ABOUT US :

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us.

With extensive experience, deep knowledge, and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. Its how weve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

LSEGs ticker symbol is LSEG.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

General Responsibilities :

- Issue management and follow up with development and project team.

- Identify and implement automation of environment support and buildout.

- Non-production batch run and monitoring in Control-M and issue resolution.

- Escalation and management of issues to resolution

- Liaise with infrastructure teams to manage SwapClear environment - DB, Unix, MQ, Storage, Portal, Networks, Control-M, Gitlab

- Issue tracking and analysis

- Release coordination and implementation

- Support BAs, tester, risk analysts in a scrum-like setting.

- Maintain working relationship with development team, business teams and business management.

- Work in Shifts/Out of hours support/ On-call support

- Be available for overnight support of non-production services to ensure successful completion of batch processes and code deployments.

- Respond to overnight calls and deal with issues.

- Support weekend Production releases and maintenance work

- Participate in Production/non-production out of hours activities such as Weekend deployments.

Consultancy :

- Provide consultancy during design and implementation.

- Quality check potential changes

- Review development release packages prior to production deployment

- Provide benefit of experience in the business area and application

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS :

Education : Degree educated, preferably in a technical discipline.

Required skills and experience :

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Scripting skills (UNIX shell scripting : bash, korn shell)

- Hands-on in version control repository (Ideally bitbucket, Gitlab)

- Understanding of product development lifecycle and agile methodologies

- Strong exposure to SQL, PL/SQL,, Git, Ansibles, Gitlab Maven, Datadog, Service Now will be an added advantage.

- Experience of working in a DevOps environment, proficient with creation of Ansible playbooks, managing code in a version

control repository like GIT, and orchestration builds via Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, SonarQube, Maven, etc.

- Experience in diagnosing and resolving complex problems.

Person Specification :

- Experience in a Post Trade or Clearing service environment.

- Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

- Experience of working in an IT support team

- Strong technical background in the core technologies with multiple years of experience

- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to IT and business teams and to senior management.

- Collaborative team spirit