Site Reliability Engineering Lead

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5 Locations
In-Office or Remote
118K-242K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Lead SRE teams to build and run automated, secure cloud environments and 24/7 production services. Drive Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, security hardening, incident management, FinOps cost optimization, automation, and cross-team collaboration to maintain uptime and resilience for mission-critical products.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you excited to lead Site Reliability Engineering teams that keep mission-critical, 24/7 services running reliably and securely?

Do you enjoy building automated cloud platforms, hardening security, and driving ongoing cost optimization through strong FinOps practices?

About the Business

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/.

About our Team
Our globally distributed SRE team operates across the FCC market, supporting a broad set of products with a focus on enterprise-grade reliability. We collaborate extensively with development, support, and other internal teams to deliver proactive monitoring, effective incident management, and continuous optimisation. Through strong alignment across these functions, we ensure our services meet strict availability and performance expectations in complex, customer-critical environments.

About the Role
In this role, you will lead Ops / SRE teams to build and run secure, automated cloud environments and production services that customers depend on around the clock. You’ll strengthen reliability and resilience across a group of products, reduce technical debt through continuous optimization, and partner across technical and non-technical teams to improve outcomes. You’ll also drive ongoing cost review and optimization through FinOps processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Ops / SRE teams to build / maintain “Infrastructures as Code”, software services (PaaS and SaaS), security policies and continuous integration / deployment processes
  • Remove technical debt, deliver security hardening, and drive continued optimization of cloud based environments
  • Maintain critical production services with a view to provide best possible uptime and a huge focus on reliability around tier 1 / mission critical 24/7 services
  • Work with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams
  • Lead FinOps processes for continuous review and ongoing cost optimization, including maintaining and forecasting cloud OPEX spend
  • Ensure 24/7 technical support and Service Level Agreements for customers is met, with ultimate accountability for uptime and resiliency across a group of products
  • Drive automation to aid productivity, minimizing the amount of traditional operational effort and maximize Infrastructure as Code
  • Manage Customer Reliability Engineering activities driving Application Monitoring, Metrics, Incident Reviews and Long Term Actions, and support BISO activities / implementing InfoSec changes

Requirements

  • Experience leading SRE Team/s, including rotating staff across products / platforms, mentoring and development, objective setting and general line management
  • Experience building and operating “Infrastructure as Code” and other DevOps practices, including CI/CD processes
  • Experience maintaining and supporting critical, high revenue business applications, including diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues
  • Good understanding of defensive, corrective, detective controls and general application troubleshooting
  • Experience hosting mission critical apps within public cloud providers such as AWS and / or Azure through services such as EC2, ECS, AKS or ACA
  • Experience working with containerized workloads such as Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes
  • Experience with security based tooling such as Qualys, Wiz, Trufflehog, GitHub Advanced Security, etc
  • Ability to maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences, and collaborate across SRE Managers/Leads/Cloud Centre of Excellence to adopt best of breed practices

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, 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

Risk benefit statement
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work
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U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in Illinois, the base pay range is $124,200 - $230,800.If performed in Chicago, IL, the base pay range is $130,200 - $241,800. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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Skills Required

  • Experience leading SRE teams including staff rotation, mentoring, objective setting and line management
  • Experience building and operating Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices, including CI/CD
  • Experience maintaining and supporting critical, high-revenue business applications and diagnosing complex system issues
  • Good understanding of defensive, corrective, and detective controls and general application troubleshooting
  • Experience hosting mission-critical applications on public cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure) using services like EC2, ECS, AKS, ACA
  • Experience with containerized workloads (Docker) and orchestration via Kubernetes
  • Experience with security tooling such as Qualys, Wiz, Trufflehog, GitHub Advanced Security
  • Ability to maintain systems and application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate across SRE leaders and Cloud CoE

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
Amsterdam
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

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.

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