Site Reliability Engineering Lead

  • RELX
  • Sutton, Surrey
  • Dec 01, 2021
Full time Engineering

Job Description

Explore our passion for discovery Global companies and governmental entities rely on us to solve their most complex data challenges. Our employees collaborate to reduce risks and create opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. We're adaptable, curious and ambitious. That's why here, you'll have the freedom to drive change, the trust to find your own path, and the space to explore more. We have an exciting opportunity for a talented Site Reliability Engineer Lead, working in an agile, dynamic and evolving environment. Reporting into the SRE Manager, this position's primary function is to lead the SRE team and build; infrastructure as code, automated pipelines, and other software services to enable and support LNRSG's cloud platforms. You will be leading the SRE team in designing, building, implementing, optimising and supporting our solutions. You will be responsible for driving the continuous improvement of existing products and processes and building infrastructure for new products and applications. With your leadership and drive; platforms are scalable and autonomous, releases go Live without any downtime and platforms are secure. The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, with proven experience leading teams in Site Reliability, Systems Engineering or DevOps. Remote working and travel to our Sutton, Surrey office. Key Skills

  • Experience in SRE and with DevOps methodology and practices.
  • Experience migrating applications from on-premises to public cloud.
  • Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
  • Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge.
  • Team management and virtual team management skills.
  • Financial understanding and awareness.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Delivery of resilient application stacks via Infrastructure as Code and other DevOps practices.
  • Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications.
  • Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.
  • Successful project / activity delivery within budget and agreed timeframes.
  • Driving and leading cloud migrations.
  • Apply problem-solving skills and technical expertise to support assignments and strategic decisions.

Our Benefits In addition to all of this, we offer the following 'core' benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave (with option to buy up to 5 days)
  • 3 discretionary days over Christmas
  • 2 paid charity days, where you get paid to help the community (as a business we do a lot of charity work)
  • Pension
  • Life assurance scheme (4*Salary)
  • Share options scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance

Women in technology: We are very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

  • Mentoring scheme for women in technology
  • Women's network forum
  • Regularly run events for schools girl about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in tech.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) is a portfolio of brands that span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics and decision tools and data services that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.