Azure Site Reliability Engineer III - Reliability Leader

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Dublin; On-site; EUR 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland—Dublin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate and improve secure Azure platforms that support large-scale production environments.

You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation with Terraform, manage AKS and GitOps with ArgoCD, and partner with security, architecture and product teams to boost resilience and operational performance.

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AKS.
• Advanced Terraform skills and experience designing reusable Infrastructure as Code components.
• Strong Git and GitOps practices, with experience using CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Strong Linux administration, scripting and programming skills using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring and proactive alerting.
• Skills in incident management, root cause analysis, capacity planning, performance optimisation, disaster recovery testing and production operations.
• Technical leadership, strategic thinking, problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, customer focus and an automation-first approach.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain highly available Azure infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Virtual Machines, Functions, App Services, Storage, Networking, Key Vault and Azure Monitor.
• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets, driving continuous improvements in platform reliability and availability.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, developing resilience patterns such as auto-scaling, self-healing, disaster recovery, multi-region failover and high-availability architectures.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, build reusable platform components and automate manual operational processes using Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Operate and optimise AKS clusters, establish container security standards, implement GitOps practices using tools such as ArgoCD and manage upgrades, capacity and workloads.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed-tracing strategies, maintaining dashboards through Grafana and Azure Monitor to identify service degradation proactively.
• Build and support reliable, repeatable and auditable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, including blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor SRE I and SRE II engineers, promote SRE practices across teams and participate in on-call rotations and major incident management.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

SRE leadership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Grafana

Azure Monitor

AKS

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Ireland—Dublin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate and improve secure Azure platforms that support large-scale production environments.

You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation with Terraform, manage AKS and GitOps with ArgoCD, and partner with security, architecture and product teams to boost resilience and operational performance.