Remote SRE Lead: Scale, Automate, Mentor

RELX INC; Norwalk (CT); Remote; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

RELX INC is seeking an experienced SRE Manager to lead the Core SRE Team within the Business Services unit. You will guide a small to mid-size engineering team, drive reliability across cloud-native platforms, and mentor engineers on incident response and post-mortems.

You will oversee hiring, performance management, and capacity planning while advancing automation, observability, and cost optimization in large-scale cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, security hardening, and troubleshooting at scale.
• Expert experience with Terraform, including modular IaC design, state management, multi-environment provisioning, and policy-as-code.
• Deep knowledge of Azure Cloud, including compute, networking, identity (AAD), storage, and cost optimization.
• Experience designing and scaling CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, release strategies, and rollback automation.
• Experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and SLO/SLA/error-budget management.
• Strong automation skills, focused on eliminating toil through self-healing systems and infrastructure automation.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell for tooling and automation.
• Deep understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and cloud-native networking.
• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles, including experience leading engineering teams.
• Proven track record leading incident response and driving reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of SREs; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Own hiring, onboarding, and team capacity/resourcing decisions
• Set team goals, prioritize backlog, and drive planning
• Foster a blameless post-incident culture and cross-team collaboration with Dev, Security, and Product
• Lead reliability initiatives across infrastructure and services
• Drive incident response activities and continuous service improvement
• Champion automation and operational excellence across the platform
• Support the development of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native environments

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Cloud

GitHub Actions

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Open

Automation

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Networking (TCP/IP/DNS/Load Balancing)

SRE/DevOps Leadership

Incident Response & Reliability

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

RELX INC is seeking an experienced SRE Manager to lead the Core SRE Team within the Business Services unit. You will guide a small to mid-size engineering team, drive reliability across cloud-native platforms, and mentor engineers on incident response and post-mortems.

You will oversee hiring, performance management, and capacity planning while advancing automation, observability, and cost optimization in large-scale cloud environments.