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Site Reliability Engineer III

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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 the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

About the Role:

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is seeking a SRE with proven industry success to provide leadership for several cloud migration project initiatives. This position and its contributions are highly visible across all internal stakeholder groups and the role works closely with various business verticals and their project teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations and Customer Operations teams.

• The successful candidate will design and coordinate implementation of cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and components, databases and storage, serverless functionality, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure reliability controls (monitoring, alerting, security policies, etc.) to migrate LNRS applications from on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure. This migration also involves a transition to DevOps practices, agile support and process automation. This role requires the ability to understand business needs and technical solution options, provide evidence-backed design input, communicate effectively with audiences of varying technical depth, influence decision-making, implement solutions consistent with best practices, and verify and effectively maintain those solutions, whilst operating within a fast-paced environment driving multiple initiatives in parallel.

• You will be a critical member of a collaborative and forward-thinking team working with a diverse range of technologies, able to enjoy an amiable and supportive environment, and benefit from our investment in team skill-building and cross-training, wherein we leverage each other’s strengths.

  About the Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring application migrations from on-prem data centers to Microsoft Azure are successful

  • Consulting and providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data

  • Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions

  • Evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations

  • Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code

  • Performing knowledge transfer for SRE, Application and Support team resources when needed

  • Diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues

  • Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency

  • Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported

  • Monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met

  • Understanding and implementing defensive, detective and corrective controls

  • Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices

  • Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

  About the Requirements:

  Overall Work Experience: 6+ Years

  High-Value Professional Experience and Skills:

  • Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud

  • Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs

  • Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals

  • Familiarity with current Microsoft Azure solutions; AWS and GCP experience also considered

  • Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)

  • Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)

  • Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)

  • Serverless solutions (e.g. Logic Apps, Function Apps, Functions, WebJobs, AWS Lambda)

  • Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)

  • Network Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Active Directory/RBAC, ACLs, NSG rules, private endpoints)

  • Big Data Analytics (e.g., Databricks, Synapse)

  Other Desirable Professional Experience and Skills:

  • Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge

  • Ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices

  • Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management

  • Multi-component system integration and troubleshooting

  • Performance analysis and tuning

  • Secrets management (Prefer Hashicorp Vault; Related: Azure Key Vault, Secrets Manager)

  • Kubernetes service meshes (Prefer Linkerd; Related: Istio, Traefik mesh)

  • Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python, Java)

  • Event handling (e.g., Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Redis Streams, Event Hubs, Service Bus)

  • Load balancing and service proxies (e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, F5)

  • Other products in use: Jira, Confluence, Azure Storage Explorer, MySQL Workbench, Maven

  Basic Professional Experience and Skills:

  • Knowledge of SDLC and change control, and associated procedures

  • Common source code control tools and repositories (e.g., Git/GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, SVN)

  • Ability to describe and discuss technical solutions with various audiences

  Required Education and Length of Professional Experience:

  • 6+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform, preferably someone with project leadership roles.

  • BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred

  • Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP)

  Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here (https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000)

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.