# Site Reliability Engineering Lead **Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $118,300 - $219,800 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RiskSolutions/job/Alpharetta-GA/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Lead_R118128?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8d03d433-a6e ## Description Ready to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms while shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering? 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. **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 collaboration and alignment on strategic initiatives. **Essential Skills and Attributes** - Strong leadership experience managing technical engineering teams. - Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering disciplines. - Extensive experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms. - Strong understanding of Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, containerization, Docker, and cloud-native architectures. - Expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible. - Strong background in observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar technologies. - Experience managing large-scale production environments with stringent availability requirements. - Strong understanding of security, compliance, networking, and cloud governance principles. - Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems. - Strong proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or C#. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation. - Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Strong documentation and presentation skills. - Ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations. **Desired Skills** - Experience building and managing enterprise-scale observability platforms. - Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and operational efficiency practices. - Experience with secret management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless or cloud-native alternatives. - Familiarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing. - Experience supporting regulated environments and compliance frameworks. - Experience leading cloud transformation and modernization programs. - Agile and Lean delivery experience. - Experience supporting global, distributed engineering teams. **Qualifications** - 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering. - 2+ years of leadership or people management experience leading engineering teams. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience. - Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related certifications preferred. - Proven track record leading reliability and operational excellence initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments. **Salary** U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. ## Skills ### Required - Site Reliability Engineering - DevOps - Cloud Engineering - Platform Engineering - Azure - AWS - Kubernetes - Terraform - Ansible - Python - Go - PowerShell - Bash - C# ### Nice to have - FinOps - cloud cost optimization - operational efficiency practices - secret management platforms - Chaos Engineering - resilience testing - regulated environments - compliance frameworks - cloud transformation - modernization programs - Agile - Lean delivery - global distributed engineering teams --- Source: [Apply at relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/RiskSolutions/job/Alpharetta-GA/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Lead_R118128?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)