Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

About the Business:

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com

About our Team:

The Core Engineering Team is the core driver of our enterprise level standard process creation and delivery. We are a high-impact group focused on building, automating, and maintaining the standards that ensure our products are deployed reliably, securely, and at high velocity.
 
We are champions of automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and operational excellence. Joining us means working hands-on with modern multi cloud platforms and cutting-edge tools to enhance system reliability, visibility, and security across the entire development lifecycle.
 
If you are passionate about scalable systems and accelerating engineering teams, you will make a significant impact here.

About the Role:

This position individuals are responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitoring & Observability: Design and implement advanced monitoring queries and dashboards; establish and refine service level baselines.

• Incident Response: Lead incident resolution efforts; contribute to post-mortems and root cause analyses.

• Disaster Recovery: Plan and execute disaster recovery tests; ensure system resilience and failover capabilities.

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure modules; execute code in production environments.

• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain and contribute to SRE knowledge bases; promote best practices across teams.

• Collaboration: Work closely with Development, QA, IT Operations, Product SRE, and Project Management teams to drive reliability initiatives.

Required Skills & Tools:

• Programming & Scripting: Python, scripting language, Java, C#

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue), Azure (Functions, Logic Apps, AKS), GCP (GKE, Cloud Functions)

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, GitLab

• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Dynatrace, Splunk, SignalFx

• Networking & Security:AWS: VPCs, IAM, Transit Gateway, CloudWAN, route53, AWS KMS, RDS Azure: Application Gateway, VNET, Express route, private link, Azure firewall, MS Sentinel, Azure Entra ID, RBAC

Primary Location Base Pay Range: Evanston, IL $107,900 - $179,900. If performed in Illinois, the pay range is $107,900 - $179,900. If performed in Chicago, IL, the pay range is $113,100 - $188,500. If performed in New York, the pay range is $113,100 - $188,500. If performed in New York City, the pay range is $118,200 - $197,100. If performed in Rochester, NY, the pay range is $97,700 - $162,700. U.S. National Pay Range: $102,800 - $171,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. 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 Re