Remote SRE Lead: Cloud Modernization & Reliability

LexisNexis Special Services Inc.; Alpharetta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Lead to champion reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for mission-critical platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive cloud modernization, and shape enterprise-wide SRE practices in a highly collaborative environment.

The role partners with product, architecture, and security to improve service availability and resilience, implementing SLOs/SLIs, IaC, and observability strategies

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud/DevOps/SRE disciplines.
• 2+ years in leadership or people management.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Define and drive SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks across engineering organizations.
• Partner with product and platform teams to improve application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience.
• Establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident review processes.
• Drive cloud modernization initiatives and support application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments.
• Champion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Develop and implement observability strategies utilizing metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure platform adherence to enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on cloud-native and highly resilient application designs.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Establish engineering guardrails, governance controls, and deployment standards for production environments.
• Support organizational transformation toward DevOps and SRE practices.
• Manage operational risk and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize reliability improvements and platform investments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with product owners, engineering leaders, vendors, and business partners.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Leadership

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Kubernetes / container orchestration

Terraform / IaC

Observability (Grafana/Prometheus)

Security/compliance awareness

Python/Go scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

AKS

EKS

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Docker

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Lead to champion reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for mission-critical platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive cloud modernization, and shape enterprise-wide SRE practices in a highly collaborative environment.

The role partners with product, architecture, and security to improve service availability and resilience, implementing SLOs/SLIs, IaC, and observability strategies