Site Reliability Engineering Lead

🕒 September 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $118.3k - $219.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Healthcare • Insurance

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

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers • Define and drive SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks • Improve application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience across product and platform teams • Establish and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets • Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident reviews • Drive cloud modernization and application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments • Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Ansible • Develop and implement observability strategies using metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards • Collaborate with security and compliance teams on enterprise requirements • Lead architecture reviews and guide cloud-native, resilient application designs • Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency • Establish engineering guardrails, governance controls, and production deployment standards • Support organizational transformation toward DevOps and SRE practices • Manage operational risk and business continuity/disaster recovery preparedness • Prioritize reliability improvements and platform investments with stakeholders • Build relationships with product owners, engineering leaders, vendors, and business partners • Conduct resource planning and support hiring, onboarding, and career development • Establish team objectives aligned with business and technology strategies • Promote accountability, innovation, and operational excellence • Act as a reliability engineering subject matter expert and trusted advisor • Drive cross-team collaboration on strategic initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering • 2+ years of leadership or people management experience leading engineering teams • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • Strong leadership experience managing technical engineering teams • Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering • Extensive experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms • Strong understanding of Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, containerization, Docker, and cloud-native architectures • Expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible • Strong background in observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar technologies • Experience managing large-scale production environments with stringent availability requirements • Strong understanding of security, compliance, networking, and cloud governance principles • Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems • Strong proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or C# • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation • Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills • Strong documentation and presentation skills • Ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations • Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related certifications preferred • Proven track record leading reliability and operational excellence initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive bonus eligibility • Country-specific benefits • Reasonable accommodations and adjustments during the hiring process • Equal opportunity employment

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