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LexisNexis Legal and Professional is the legal information division of the RELX group, descended from the pioneering Lexis full-text legal search service launched in 1973. It sells case law and statutory research, practical guidance, drafting and analytics tools to law firms, corporate legal departments, courts and government bodies, and it has embedded generative assistants across those products under the Lexis+ AI name. Headquartered in New York with major operations in Ohio and North Carolina, it competes principally with Thomson Reuters and holds one of the two large English-language legal content archives.

Are you passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly reliable platforms that empower innovation and support critical technology services?

Do you enjoy leading reliability initiatives, driving automation, and partnering across teams to create resilient systems and exceptional developer experiences?

About our Team

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.

About the Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will help shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will work closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence, strengthen delivery pipelines, and reduce manual effort through automation. This role also provides technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement.

Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.

- Lead platform engineering initiatives, including internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.

- Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding automated security scanning, compliance checks, and secure-by-default configurations into CI/CD pipelines.

- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; use them to guide engineering priorities and reliability investments.

- Own incident management, including on-call leadership, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

- Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience.

- Architect and implement observability solutions to improve visibility and accelerate detection and resolution.

Requirements

- Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.

- Demonstrated background in platform engineering, including building internal tools, self-service infrastructure, or developer platforms.

- Strong hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.

- Practical experience with DevSecOps, integrating security scanning, secrets management, and compliance automation into deployment pipelines.

- Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and Linux systems administration.

- Experience leading incident response and driving postmortem processes.

- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

- Experience with observability and security tooling, and the ability to contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.

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