Site Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Leinster; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve secure Azure platforms for large-scale production environments. You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives and partner with engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to enhance resilience.

You will define SLIs/SLOs, implement IaC with Terraform, and automate deployments using Python/PowerShell/Go/Bash.

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 IaC components.
• Strong Git and GitOps practices, with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Strong Linux administration, scripting and programming skills in Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, distributed tracing, and proactive alerting.
• Incident management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimisation and disaster recovery testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain highly available Azure infrastructure including AKS, VMs, Functions, App Services, Storage and Networking.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to improve platform reliability.
• Lead root cause analyses and post-incident reviews, building resilience patterns.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automate operational tasks with Python/PowerShell/Go/Bash.
• Operate and optimise AKS clusters, establish container security standards, and manage upgrades.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing strategies with Grafana and Azure Monitor.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps with blue/green and canary deployments.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Go

Bash

Linux

Tools

ArgoCD

Grafana

Azure Monitor

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Are you passionate about building reliable, secure and scalable cloud platforms?

Would you like to lead Azure reliability initiatives and help engineering teams adopt Site Reliability Engineering best practices?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle, all while reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance.

About the Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, operate and continuously improve secure, highly available Azure platforms that support large-scale production environments. You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation and partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to improve resilience and operational performance.

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.

Requirements

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering, including supporting large-scale production environments.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service.
• 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. Azure, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications are welcomed.

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work