Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Talent Octopusventures; United States; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Assurance Policies

Flexible Benefits Plan

Learning & Development Resources

Flexible Working Arrangements

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a senior leader to head a global Site Reliability Engineering team. You will drive cloud-native architectures, automated pipelines, and security-focused operations across USA and India, with a strong emphasis on IaC and scalable, rebuildable infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, improve performance, cost, and reliability, and partner with product and security teams to deliver reliable services at scale.

Qualifications

• Leadership and design of large migration projects from on-prem to cloud.
• Partnering and leading technology resources to solve complex business needs.
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to meet team goals.
• Experience with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud-native solutions and patterns that are highly elastic.
• Mentor your team in advanced cloud infra topics and coding challenges.
• Set an example of methodical, systematic task execution for the team.
• Collaborate with project managers to provide status and reporting.
• Drive projects to schedule and ensure alignment across USA and India.
• Perform code reviews with rigor and best practices.
• Apply continuous process improvements across operations.
• Automate everything and ensure infrastructure is IaC.
• Ensure infrastructure can be rebuilt from ground up without manual configs.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

SRE leadership

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Argo/Helm

Terraform

Docker

JFrog

Grafana

Information Security

Redis

Job description

Are you ready to lead a global SRE team while shaping cloud‑native architectures that can be rebuilt from the ground up—fully automated, secure, and scalable by design?

About the Business

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides 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. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, risk.lexisnexis.com

About the Team

You will be joining the Core SRE Team in Business Services, a team that oversees all the applications and infrastructure in the biggest business unit in LexisNexis Risk Solutions. We build cloud environments, migrate on prem applications to the cloud, work with self-hosted and 3rd party solutions. The successful candidate is a self-starter who assesses the situation, collaboratively develops a solution, and takes the initiative to improve performance, cost, and reliability at each opportunity.

About the Role

This role will lead a team of SRE’s across the USA and India regions. You will be the point of contact for the Core SRE team and other product specific DevOps and SRE teams in terms of addressing blockers, helping with best practices for cloud architecture, paving the ways in terms of new landscapes and SaaS solutions. Big part of the role requires security focus as we have many different solutions. You will set the example for a collaborative and forward-thinking team working with a diverse range of technologies so that they are able to enjoy an amiable and supportive environment, benefit from our investment in team skills-building and cross-training, and where we leverage each other’s strengths.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud-native solutions and patterns that are highly elastic.
• Empower stakeholders and reduce toil through self-service pipelines.
• Mentor your team in solving deep technical issues, advanced cloud infrastructure topics, and complex coding problems.
• Set an example of methodical, systematic task execution for your team.
• Work with project managers and stakeholders to provide status and reporting.
• Act as an ambassador to other teams, finding common ground and defining clear agreements.
• Drive projects to schedule.
• Perform code reviews with an eye toward rigor and best practice.
• Apply continuous process improving techniques across the operation.
• Automate everything.
• You will ensure that everything is IAC, and that your team’s infra can be rebuilt from the ground up without relying on manual configurations or the Azure/AWS Portal.

Key technologies

• Azure, GitHub, Azure Kubernetes, Argo / Helm, Terraform, Docker, JFrog, Grafana, Networking, Information Security, Redis

Requirements

• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud
• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
• Experience with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Working for You

• Medical Inpatient and Outpatient Insurance: Coverage for your healthcare needs.
• Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
• Modern Family Benefits: Support for maternity, paternity, and adoption needs.
• Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
• Celebratory Allowance/Gifts: Marking special occasions to celebrate with you.
• Flexible Benefits Plan : Offering you wider choice of services and products
• Employee Assistance Program : Access support for personal and work-related challenges.
• Flexible Working Arrangements: Balance work and personal life effectively.
• Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Base Pay Range for CO is $118,300 - $219,800. Base Pay Range for IL is $124,200 - $230,800. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $130,200 - $241,800. Base Pay Range for MD is $124,200 - $230,800. Base Pay Range for NY is $130,200 - $241,800. Base Pay Range for New York City is $142,000 - $263,800. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $118,300 - $219,800. Base Pay Range for OH is $112,400 - $208,800. Base Pay Range for NJ is $149,765- $239,235.

This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Application deadline is 10/05/2026.

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.

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