SRE Lead: Drive Reliability, Scale & Cloud Modernization

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

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.