SRE Lead: Cloud Reliability & Automation Champion

RELX International; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United States is seeking a professional manager to lead the Core SRE Team within Business Services. You will mentor a team of engineers, own hiring and planning, and drive reliability initiatives, automation, and cross-team collaboration across cloud-native environments.

The role emphasizes post-incident reviews, RCAs, and scalable, secure infrastructure. Candidates should have strong SRE/DevOps leadership experience and a track record in incident response.

Qualifications

• Expert Kubernetes at scale, including autoscaling and security hardening.
• Terraform IaC design with multi-environment provisioning.
• Azure Cloud expertise: compute, networking, identity, storage, cost optimization.
• Designing and scaling CI/CD with GitHub Actions and rollback automation.
• Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SLO/SLA management.
• Strong automation to reduce toil with self-healing systems.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell for tooling.
• Deep networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs.
• SRE/DevOps leadership with incident response track record.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of SREs; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews.
• 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

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Observability platforms

Automation

Python

Networking concepts

SRE/DevOps leadership

Incident response leadership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

PowerShell

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United States is seeking a professional manager to lead the Core SRE Team within Business Services. You will mentor a team of engineers, own hiring and planning, and drive reliability initiatives, automation, and cross-team collaboration across cloud-native environments.

The role emphasizes post-incident reviews, RCAs, and scalable, secure infrastructure. Candidates should have strong SRE/DevOps leadership experience and a track record in incident response.