Site Reliability Engineer III

RELX INC; Dublin; On-site; EUR 51,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

RELX INC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate and continuously improve secure, highly available Azure platforms for large-scale production environments. You will lead reliability initiatives, develop automation, and partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to enhance resilience and operational performance.

The role requires expert Azure and Kubernetes knowledge, strong Terraform skills, and experience with GitOps, scripting, monitoring and incident

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering or cloud platforms.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes.
• Advanced Terraform skills to design reusable IaC components.
• Strong Git/GitOps with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, tracing and alerting.
• Incident management, root cause analysis and capacity planning.
• Azure, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and improve secure, highly available Azure platforms for large-scale production environments.
• Lead reliability initiatives and develop reusable automation.
• Partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to improve resilience.
• Maintain IaC with Terraform and build platform components.
• Manage AKS clusters, security standards, GitOps practices and upgrades.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracing strategies.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Mentor SRE engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Python

PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Dublin Full time R

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 the Role

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.

Pay Range

Location Base Pay Range: Ireland - Dublin (Rockfield Central) 51,400 - 85,700.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact .

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.