Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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💵 $118.3k - $219.8k / year

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⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company focuses on enabling its clients to make better decisions, improve results, and enhance productivity by leveraging advanced technology and data. RELX serves various sectors, including Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions, by offering specialized information and analytical tools that facilitate critical decision-making. The company is committed to corporate responsibility and delivering societal benefit through its products by contributing to scientific advancement, legal justice, and effective market transactions.

📋 Description

• Guide the observability and reliability initiative for Government Systems running on Azure Government • Set technical direction for measuring and improving organizational reliability • Lead the transition to SLO-based reliability engineering • Guide development teams on application telemetry and instrumentation strategy • Serve as the primary technical authority on Datadog, including dashboarding, alerting, and SLO tracking • Recommend service level objectives with Product and Development teams • Act as a senior escalation point during incidents • Improve and evolve the broader SRE framework • Build disaster recovery plans, including advanced fault injection scenarios • Advise on SRE training curriculum and content • Set and follow priorities established by the SRE Manager • Train and mentor junior SREs

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance • Significant, hands-on experience with Datadog, including dashboards, alerting, SLO/error-budget tracking, and telemetry pipelines • Proven experience leading an organization's transition to SLO-based reliability engineering • Experience guiding development teams on instrumentation and telemetry strategy • Deep technical understanding of full-stack observability techniques • Ability to build templated observability dashboards and configuration as code • Ability to set and influence organization-wide SLOs and Error Budgets • Comfortable operating across Linux and Windows server environments • Experience preparing and assessing SREs for on-call readiness • Experience running psychologically safe post-mortems • Experience acting as a senior on-call escalation point • Experience identifying and fixing root causes of excessive alerting and pager load • Advanced understanding of systems design, high availability, deployment, recovery techniques, failure modes, and system behaviors • Specialized depth in denial-of-service protection, containerization, or another related area • Ability to make resilience and recoverability decisions using load testing data and fault injection results • Experience documenting SRE design practices and contributing to an SRE framework • Experience contributing to disaster recovery plans and runbooks • Ability to design and lead disaster recovery practice scenarios and incident response exercises • Experience planning chaos engineering scenarios across memory, network, I/O, or distributed systems • Ability to build engineering and architecture consensus for standard platforms and CI/CD components • Experience promoting adoption and standardization, including inner sourcing • Experience creating and sharing SRE best practices and training material • Comfortable coaching other SREs and identifying development gaps • Ability to identify and eliminate large-scale toil • Experience using GitHub Copilot for troubleshooting, automation, or reliability tooling is desired • Interest in defining AI-assisted development best practices within an SRE context is desired

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus • Country-specific benefits • Accommodation or adjustment support during the hiring process

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