Senior SRE – AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

LexisNexis; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis is seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to build and operate the secure, reliable AWS platform behind our identity-verification services. This role offers hands-on ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team, ensuring scalable and resilient systems while advancing CI/CD and IaC practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps in production environments.
• Strong AWS experience including Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking.
• Proven IaC and automation experience; AWS CDK is strongly preferred.
• Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, troubleshooting, and security knowledge.
• Observability experience: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and health dashboards.
• Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Experience designing reliable systems using SRE methods: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and Spec‑Driven Development tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• Drive reliability through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilient architecture.
• Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices, with extensive use of AWS CDK.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and rapid incident diagnosis.
• Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.
• Apply and drive adoption of the AWS AI‑DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.
• Participate in global follow‑the‑sun support and help strengthen operational standards and documentation.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Observability

Automation & IaC

CI/CD

Incident response & RCAs

Tools

AWS CDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

RDS

DynamoDB

IAM

Networking

Linux/Unix

Job description

LexisNexis is seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to build and operate the secure, reliable AWS platform behind our identity-verification services. This role offers hands-on ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team, ensuring scalable and resilient systems while advancing CI/CD and IaC practices.