Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer (Search Infrastructure)

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The Lead DevOps/SRE Engineer at Relativity develops software and leads a team to apply software engineering best practices to deliver high-quality, maintainable, reusable, reliable, performant, and scalable software. They will work with business stakeholders to support the development of products, features and services that drive and evolve our SaaS offering.  In this role, you will serve as a technical liaison between your team and other internal and external development teams to identify and resolve dependencies, to identify, improve, and apply software engineering best practices and processes, and to identify and mitigate risks to the on-time delivery of software. 
The Search Excellence Team Relativity Search is a suite of applications that empower customers to find relevant information, retrieve and present it. Search products include document ingestion, index building, searching, and search term reports execution. Stable and high performant Search directly impacts customer experience and is critical for the organization.     In the Search Excellence Team, we build the massive, scalable, and fault tolerant Elastic Cloud Enterprise-based platform with the goal of making the Relativity Search the best possible experience for our customers. We strive to make the platform performant, reliable and available by managing and provisioning our infrastructure through code, implementing observability and workload automation. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead, assistand engage in the full lifecycle of our large-scale, Azure cloud-based search infrastructure - from concept and design, through to development, deployment,operation and refinement, 
• Collaboratewith Product Management team to improve our platform and influence functional requirements, 
• Define, analyze, and estimate non-functional software requirements, 
• Provide input into system architecture development by working with Principal Architects, 
• Ensure best practices of Test-Driven Development and the use of autonomous frameworks and CI/CD, 
• Participate in the on-call rotation - triage and address platform issues that get escalated by our Customer Support Team. 

Your Skills:

• A degree in Computer Science or related field, 
• 7+ years of experience designing, developing and troubleshooting highly scalable, secure, fault-tolerant systems in Azure cloud environment, 
• Proven track record of leading successful engineering teams in agile environment, including mentoring and project leadership, 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, 
• Experience creating solutions with IaC and/or CaCtools (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet); Pulumi is a plus, 
• Excellent knowledge and experience working with container technologies, 
• Experience programming in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby, 
• Thorough understanding of DevOps principles and hands-on experience working with CI/CD approach in highly automated environments, 
• Proficiency in Linux system administration, 
• Experience working with ECE and/or Elastic Stack is a plus, 
• Experience working and developing applications with .NET framework is a strong plus, 
• Experience developing, troubleshooting, and optimizing SQL queries; MS SQL Server is a plus, 
• Strong teamwork and partnering skills for cross-group collaboration coupled with effective verbal and written communication in English. 


• If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying.  

Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.
Benefit Highlights:Comprehensive health planFlexible work arrangements Two, week-long company breaks per yearUnlimited time off Long-term incentive programTraining investment program
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.