Senior SRE Lead - Cloud Reliability & Automation

Nextens; United States; Remote; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a professional SRE Manager to lead a Core SRE team responsible for reliability across cloud-native environments and on-prem to cloud migrations. You will drive performance, cost, and resilience improvements while mentoring engineers.

You will oversee hiring, performance, and career development, ensuring tasks align with SRE best practices and incident response processes, with cross-team collaboration across Dev, Security, and Product.

Qualifications

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

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Python

Bash/PowerShell

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a professional SRE Manager to lead a Core SRE team responsible for reliability across cloud-native environments and on-prem to cloud migrations. You will drive performance, cost, and resilience improvements while mentoring engineers.

You will oversee hiring, performance, and career development, ensuring tasks align with SRE best practices and incident response processes, with cross-team collaboration across Dev, Security, and Product.