Site Reliability Engineering Lead

RELX International; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Georgia seeks a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to guide reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence across mission-critical platforms.

You will mentor a team of SREs, drive cloud modernization, implement observability, automation, and IaC, and partner with architecture, security, and product teams to deliver resilient services.

This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership and strategic planning in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and mentoring experience.
• Ability to define SRE standards, practices, and governance.
• Proven capability to drive cloud modernization and IaC adoption.
• Excellent collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
• Define and drive SRE strategy, standards, and operational frameworks.
• Partner with product and platform teams to improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience.
• Establish and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Lead major incident management and post-incident reviews.
• Drive cloud modernization initiatives and migrations to cloud providers.
• Champion automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Develop observability strategies using metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with security/compliance to meet enterprise requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews for cloud-native, resilient designs.
• Drive capacity planning and cost management to improve efficiency.
• Set deployment standards and guardrails for production environments.
• Support DevOps/SRE transformations across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Ownership

Collaboration

Hiring

Resource planning

Cloud modernization

Terraform

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Ansible

Observability

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Ready to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms while shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering?

Would you like to mentor high-performing engineers, drive cloud modernization, and influence enterprise-wide engineering practices in a highly collaborative environment?

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 our Team

The CIC (Insurance Core Services) team is responsible for establishing and driving reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence standards across Insurance technology platforms. The team partners closely with application, infrastructure, database, and cloud engineering teams to improve platform availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.

ICS leads strategic initiatives including SLO/SLI implementation, observability platform adoption, cloud modernization, operational readiness reviews, performance engineering, and reliability automation. The team also develops reusable engineering frameworks, standards, and best practices that enable product teams to build and operate highly reliable cloud-native services at scale.

About the Role

As a Site Reliability Engineering Lead, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for Site Reliability Engineering initiatives across multiple product portfolios. You will lead a team of SREs responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence of mission-critical applications and platforms.

The SRE Lead will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to drive cloud modernization, operational maturity, observability excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, mentoring, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of 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 tools such as 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 .

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers.


• Conduct resource planning and support hiring, onboarding, and career development activities.


• Establish team objectives aligned with business and technology strategies.


• Promote accountability, innovation, and operational excellence within the team.


• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for reliability engineering across the organization.


• Drive cross-team coll