Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Azure/Kubernetes

Relx Plc; Dublin; On-site; EUR 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, operate and improve secure Azure platforms for large-scale production. You will lead reliability initiatives, build reusable automation and partner with engineering, security and product teams.

You will develop Terraform IaC, lead incident reviews, and drive on-call readiness while mentoring SRE I/II engineers and promoting GitOps practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive SRE/DevOps experience in large-scale production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Advanced Terraform skills for reusable IaC components.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency in Linux scripting (Python/PowerShell/Go/Bash).
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain highly available Azure infrastructure (AKS, VMs, Functions, App Services, Storage, Networking).
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to improve reliability.
• Lead root cause analyses and post-incident reviews; build resilience patterns.
• Create IaC with Terraform; automate operations with scripting languages.
• Operate and optimise AKS; enforce container security; practice GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Develop monitoring and logging using Grafana and Azure Monitor; proactive alerting.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) with blue/green/canary strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior SREs; participate in on-call.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

Python/PowerShell/Go

Linux administration

CI/CD

Incident management

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Grafana

Azure Monitor

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, operate and improve secure Azure platforms for large-scale production. You will lead reliability initiatives, build reusable automation and partner with engineering, security and product teams.

You will develop Terraform IaC, lead incident reviews, and drive on-call readiness while mentoring SRE I/II engineers and promoting GitOps practices across teams.