Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Are you a collaborative Azure Sr SRE  looking to work for a mission driven global organization?

Do you possess advanced Azure SRE skills and looking to put those skills to use to help drive innovation?

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that help them solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk and improve operations. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, Georgia it operates within the Risk market segment of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About the role; This Azure SRE will administer (Azure) AKS clusters running critical always-on middleware handling thousands of TPS. They will be expected to conduct operations in a manner consistent with a five-9’s availability target.

About the team, this team is entrusted with applying software engineering practices to IT operations tasks to maintain a scalable and reliable production environment. This team also automates recovery to protect critical service levels.

Responsibilities

• Designing, writing, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Helm to provision and manage cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Creating and maintaining Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments, ensuring consistency across environments.
• Developing modular, reusable Terraform templates for VPCs, subnets, clusters, and observability tooling.
• Conducting code reviews for Terraform and Helm changes to ensure compliance, reusability, and security.
• Individuals are responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects. At this level, SREs have hands-on experience across most SRE practices.
• Contributing to process improvements through experience and knowledge.
• Deploying AKS cluster and cutovers, base image updates, testing IaC changes, and other work focused on daily operations

Requirements

• Current an extensive experience as an Azure SRE.
• Possess a deep understanding of IaC configuration design, software defined networking and infrastructure, and observability platforms such as ELK, Grafana Loki, and/or OpenTelemetry.
• Possess an  understanding of how to observe distributed systems and their dependencies, and how to automate recovery to protect service levels.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible). Knowledge of running software developed in languages such as Java, C++, .NET, and/or Node.js is expected
• This position requires experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub (Actions), ArgoCD, and IaC automation as well as solid Linux and cloud networking skills

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $102,800 - $171,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in Ohio, the pay range is $97,700 - $162,700. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. 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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