About Us
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
About the Role
Leads a team responsible for enterprise observability platforms and core development tooling, enabling fast detection, diagnosis, and resolution of production issues. Owns the reliability, security, scalability, performance, and instrumentation of CI/CD and developer platforms to improve system reliability and developer productivity at scale.
Partners with engineering, SRE/Operations, and Security to embed observability and operational excellence across the software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Lead & develop the team: hire, coach, set priorities, and build a culture of reliability, ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
Set observability direction: define vision/roadmap and standards for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and service health; promote early instrumentation and SLI/SLO-based practices.
Own DevOps Tools & CI/CD platforms: provide governance and strategic oversight for Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, and related tooling; define guardrails for repos, branching, pipelines, build agents, and integrations.
Drive reliability & incident excellence: partner on incident response, RCA, and post-mortems; improve detection, triage, rollback, recovery, and on-call readiness.
Platform engineering & automation: manage platforms via Infrastructure as Code; standardize configurations and operational practices; evaluate tools with an eye to capability, complexity, risk, and cost.
Security, compliance & cost: ensure auditability, access controls/reviews, and logging meet enterprise requirements; optimize platform spend without degrading reliability or developer experience.
Cross-functional communication: convert technical information into business value and coordinate stakeholders across application, platform, and infrastructure teams.
Requirements
Experience leading engineering teams in Observability/SRE/Platform/DevOps Tools.
Hands-on background with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Experience operating/governing CI/CD and developer platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins).
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or Azure).
Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
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
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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Skills Required
- Experience leading engineering teams in Observability, SRE, Platform, or DevOps Tools
- Hands-on experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience operating and governing CI/CD and developer platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins)
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or Azure)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
LexisNexis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LexisNexis and has not been reviewed or approved by LexisNexis.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are often described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life and disability protection. Wellbeing programming such as wellness initiatives and fitness support is also positioned as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are repeatedly framed as a meaningful component of total rewards through 401(k) matching and access to stock purchase opportunities. Performance bonuses and charitable matching are also included as financial-support features within the broader rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as broad, including PTO, paid holidays, sick leave, and paid volunteer time. Flexible work arrangements, including remote options and flexible hours, further strengthen the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets, monitoring their brands and competition, and in mitigating business risk. We collaborate with universities to educate students, and we support nation-building with governments and courts by making laws accessible and strengthening legal infrastructures. We partner with leading global associations and customers to collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
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