{"id":1150590,"url":"https://alion.io/job/relx-site-reliability-engineering-lead-2","title":"Site Reliability Engineering Lead","company":{"id":3770,"name":"RELX","domain":"relx.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/relx","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":115,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.843,"repost_share":0.009,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Alpharetta, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":118300,"max":219800,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":219800},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Dynatrace","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T17:30:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T23:35:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Ready to lead the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms while shaping the future of Site Reliability Engineering?\nWould you like to mentor high-performing engineers, drive cloud modernization, and influence enterprise-wide engineering practices in a highly collaborative environment?\nAbout the Business\nLexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle, all while reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at\nhttps://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance\nAbout our Team\nThe ICS (Insurance Core Services) team is responsible for establishing and driving reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence standards across Insurance technology platforms. The team partners closely with application, infrastructure, database, and cloud engineering teams to improve platform availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.\nICS leads strategic initiatives including SLO/SLI implementation, observability platform adoption, cloud modernization, operational readiness reviews, performance engineering, and reliability automation. The team also develops reusable engineering frameworks, standards, and best practices that enable product teams to build and operate highly reliable cloud-native services at scale.\nThe SRE Lead will play a key role in shaping reliability strategy, mentoring engineers, driving cross-functional initiatives, and partnering with business and technology stakeholders to improve service reliability and operational maturity across the organization.\nAbout the Role\nAs 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.\nThe SRE Lead will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to drive cloud modernization, operational maturity, observability excellence, automation, and continuous improvement. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, mentoring, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration.\nResponsibilities\nLead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.\nDefine and drive SRE strategy, standards, best practices, and operational frameworks across engineering organizations.\nPartner with product and platform teams to improve application reliability, scalability, security, performance, and resilience.\nEstablish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.\nLead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and post-incident review processes.\nDrive cloud modernization initiatives and support application migrations to Azure, AWS, and containerized environments.\nChampion automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Ansible.\nDevelop and implement observability strategies utilizing metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.\nCollaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure platform adherence to enterprise security and regulatory requirements.\nLead architecture reviews and provide guidance on cloud-native and highly resilient application designs.\nDrive capacity planning, performance optimization, cost management, and operational efficiency initiatives.\nEstablish engineering guardrails, governance controls, and deployment standards for production environments.\nSupport organizational transformation toward DevOps and SRE practices.\nManage operational risk and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness.\nCollaborate with stakeholders to prioritize reliability improvements and platform investments.\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with product owners, engineering leaders, vendors, and business partners.\nLeadership Responsibilities\nLead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Site Reliability Engineers.\nConduct resource planning and support hiring, onboarding, and career development activities.\nEstablish team objectives aligned with business and technology strategies.\nPromote accountability, innovation, and operational excellence within the team.\nAct as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for reliability engineering across the organization.\nDrive cross-team collaboration and alignment on strategic initiatives.\nEssential Skills and Attributes\nStrong leadership experience managing technical engineering teams.\nDeep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering disciplines.\nExtensive experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, containerization, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.\nExpertise with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.\nStrong background in observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar technologies.\nExperience managing large-scale production environments with stringent availability requirements.\nStrong understanding of security, compliance, networking, and cloud governance principles.\nExperience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient systems.\nStrong proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or C#.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and software delivery automation.\nExceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\nStrong documentation and presentation skills.\nAbility to influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations.\nDesired Skills\nExperience building and managing enterprise-scale observability platforms.\nKnowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and operational efficiency practices.\nExperience with secret management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault, Akeyless or cloud-native alternatives.\nFamiliarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing.\nExperience supporting regulated environments and compliance frameworks.\nExperience leading cloud transformation and modernization programs.\nAgile and Lean delivery experience.\nExperience supporting global, distributed engineering teams.\nQualifications\n8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.\n2+ years of leadership or people management experience leading engineering teams.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.\nAzure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related certifications preferred.\nProven track record leading reliability and operational excellence initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments.\nRisk benefit statement\nLearn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000\n\nU.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.\n\nBase Pay Range for CO is $118,300 - $219,800. Base Pay Range for IL is $124,200 - $230,800. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $130,200 - $241,800. Base Pay Range for MD is $124,200 - $230,800. Base Pay Range for NY is $130,200 - $241,800. Base Pay Range for New York City is $142,000 - $263,800. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $118,300 - $219,800. Base Pay Range for OH is $112,400 - $208,800. Base Pay Range for NJ is $149,765- $239,235.\n\nThis job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.\n\nApplication deadline is 12/23/2026.\n\nWe 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.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. 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