SRE Lead: Cloud Reliability & Automation

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

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a professional manager for the Core SRE Team to lead a small to mid-size group of engineers, drive reliability, automation, and cost optimization across cloud-native platforms.

You will hire, coach, and evaluate staff, conduct 1:1s and performance reviews, and oversee post-incident RCAs to prevent recurrence. Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, and CI/CD skills are required to scale our cloud environments.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide line management to a small to medium engineering team, including performance management.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and team capacity/resourcing decisions.
• Set team goals, prioritize backlog, and drive planning.
• Foster blameless post-incident culture and cross-team collaboration.
• Lead reliability initiatives across infrastructure and services.
• Drive incident response activities and continuous service improvement.
• Champion automation and operational excellence across the platform.
• Support scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native environments.

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Networking concepts

SRE/DevOps experience

Incident response

Automation

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Cloud

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a professional manager for the Core SRE Team to lead a small to mid-size group of engineers, drive reliability, automation, and cost optimization across cloud-native platforms.

You will hire, coach, and evaluate staff, conduct 1:1s and performance reviews, and oversee post-incident RCAs to prevent recurrence. Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, and CI/CD skills are required to scale our cloud environments.