Azure SRE Lead: Reliability, Automation & CI/CD

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (Europe) Limited Company; Dublin; On-site; EUR 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

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

You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation and partner with engineering, security and product teams to enhance resilience and operational performance. Strong Azure, Kubernetes and IaC skills are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud/Platform Engineering for large-scale production environments.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Advanced Terraform skills and reusable IaC design.
• Strong Git/GitOps with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Scripting in Python/PowerShell/Go/Bash; Linux administration.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and distributed tracing.
• Incident management, RCA & capacity planning; disaster recovery.
• Leadership, problem solving, and strong communication; automation-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and improve guaranteed Azure-based platforms for reliability.
• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to improve resilience.
• Lead RCAs and post-incident reviews; implement auto-scaling and multi-region failover.
• Build IaC with Terraform; automate operational tasks with Python/PowerShell/Go/Bash.
• Manage AKS clusters, container security, and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerts and tracing; dashboards in Grafana/Azure Monitor.
• Create CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps; blue/green canaries.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring for SRE engineers; participate in on-call.

Skills

SRE experience

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Incident management

Technical leadership

Automation-first approach

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Grafana

Job description

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

You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation and partner with engineering, security and product teams to enhance resilience and operational performance. Strong Azure, Kubernetes and IaC skills are required.