Platform & Infrastructure Team Lead

About the Role 

Platform & Infrastructure Team Leads are responsible for managing a team of infrastructure specialists, and contributing to the design, build, and maintenance of LMAX's on-premises and cloud infrastructure platforms. 

 Main Duties & Responsibilities 

• Strong leadership delivering an empowered and engaged APAC team 

• Representing the APAC team and being a vocal advocate in a global support team headquartered in London 

• Co-ordinate between teams and time zones, balancing business objectives and operational goals. 

• Ensure engineers’ tasks are clearly defined and assist with removing their blockers. 

• Take ownership of the performance, engagement and personal development of engineers. 

• Ownership of objectives, driving delivery through task delegation and hands-on activities. 

• Line management – check-ins, setting clear goals, performance reviews, engagement & happiness. 

• Team management – task allocation and resource planning, workload sign-up and management, participating in wider department objective planning. 

• Support infrastructure including corporate, development and production environments, both Cloud and on-premises. 

• Able to lead and direct large projects with minimal supervision including all aspects of project management, budgeting, commercial negotiations, resourcing and time management. 

• Project management - manage multiple technical staff, be in control of planning, resourcing, purchasing and reporting progress upstream with light supervision. 

• Turn product briefs into system design specifications, partnering with other technology and business staff to agree objectives and communicate design. 

• Ensuring staff have all necessary resources for Learning and Development, are taking time for self-development, and arranging tasks based on learning opportunities. 

• Surface the pain points and blockers to other leaders in different time zones and take ownership to unblock your and other teams. 

Technical Skills 

• Good all-round knowledge of modern technical architecture, infrastructure and engineering 

• Proven Linux/Cloud engineering skills 

• An understanding of mitigating cybersecurity risks utilising topology, toolsets, technology, people and processes 

•  Good networking experience with the ability to troubleshoot production issues 

Once more advanced into the role 

• Procurement – manage relationships with suppliers, obtaining quotes and negotiating pricing. 

• Actively share knowledge and skills with colleagues through documentation, pair working and team discussions. 

• Develop and maintain knowledge of LMAX domain and related financial markets and use this knowledge to challenge, refine and focus team direction. 

• Can own technology verticals and become a subject matter expert, defining processes, driving improvements, and fostering ideas and education for the wider teams. 

• Capable of leading response to major site issues/outages. 

• 25 days of holiday
• Bonus
• Pension: CPF
• Private medical and dental coverage
• Term Life
• Personal Death and Accident Insurance
• Wellness contribution program with access to ClassPass
• Plumm Platform
• Five volunteering days
• Give as You Earn initiative
• Fearning and development programs