About the role:
A FinOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) bridges the gap between engineering, operations, and financial governance by embedding cost optimization into infrastructure design, automation, monitoring, and operational processes. A FinOps SRE proactively identifies waste, improves resource utilization, automates cost controls, and enhances visibility into cloud spending while maintaining service reliability and performance.
The ideal candidate is a cloud-native SRE with strong experience in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, automation, AI platforms, and cloud financial management.
Responsibilities:- Lead cloud cost optimization initiatives across Azure and AWS.
- Drive optimization initiatives involving compute, storage, AI workloads, networking, and managed services.
- Support enterprise AI, Generative AI, and machine learning platforms.
- Implement governance, monitoring, and financial accountability for AI services and GPU-enabled environments.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation solutions.
- Build CI/CD and GitOps capabilities that improve platform delivery and consistency.
- Eliminate manual processes through automation and self-service capabilities.
- Promote engineering efficiency through reusable patterns, templates, and tooling.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across cloud, FinOps, and platform initiatives.
- Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, and platform modernization efforts.
- Drive adoption of engineering, governance, and operational excellence standards.
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Proven experience implementing cloud automation and observability solutions.
- Experience leading cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives.
- Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or Generative AI platform capabilities.
- FinOps Certification (Nice to have)
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering
- Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Experience implementing cloud automation and observability solutions
- Experience leading cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives
- Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or Generative AI platform capabilities
- FinOps Certification
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
