Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer I
Job Summary
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Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage reliability and toil reduction projects, support incident management, and contribute to process improvements. The role involves hands-on experience with SRE practices and providing informal guidance to junior staff.

Responsibilities
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• Creates monitoring queries and establishes service level baselines

• Supports senior engineers during incidents

• Makes contributions during post-mortems and RCAs

• Participates in disaster recovery tests

• Implements automation and executes code in production environments

• Contributes to SRE knowledge documentation

Qualifications
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Required
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• Hands-on experience across most SRE practices.

• Good understanding of how to observe distributed systems and their dependencies.

• Ability to automate recovery to protect service levels.

• On-call support during incidents.

• Contribute to process improvements through experience and knowledge.

• Provide informal guidance to junior staff.

• Create monitoring queries and establish service level baselines.

• Support senior engineers during incidents.

• Make contributions during post-mortems and RCAs.

• Participate in disaster recovery tests.

• Implement automation and execute code in production environments.

• Contribute to SRE knowledge documentation.

• Support architecture and senior engineers in the creation of infrastructure topology drawings and deployment workflows.

• Carry out the testing of availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments.

• Benchmark and document test performance results to support production readiness reviews.

• Advanced hands-on experience of Dev Ops practices including monitoring, virtual networks, cloud storage, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, configuration management, and securing cloud applications.

• Participate on-call to assist in the recovery of Major Incidents (for production environments).

• Test system and component failover within and between geographic regions (for production environments).

• Automate the recovery of systems and components using Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration Management scripts.

• Create and/or present RCAs including the executive summary, timeline, detailed impact statement, follow-on actions, and residual risks.

• Lead scenario modelling exercises and the creation of workflows which are triggered by a breach of SLO.

• Participate on the on-call rotation and provide on-call support for other SRE engineers.

• Write advanced automation scripts for incident response including failovers and rollbacks.

• Contribute to SRE knowledge base articles and training material.

• Analyze toil by looking at ticket trends and make recommendations for the team on focus areas.

• Independently work on small toil elimination projects.

• Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack.

• Create templated observability dashboards and configuration using code.

• Influence the setting of appropriate SLOs and Error Budgets.

• Work within or manage a cross-functional team in support of migrating applications to standard platforms.

• Give direction and consultancy to others when implementing new Paved Road features or Platforms.

• Analyze and make recommendations to improve the SDLC and CI/CD processes.

• Create actionable reports on the operational health and lifecycle of platform and product components.

• Technical

Skills:

Azure (AKS, etc), Terraform, Git Hub, CI/CD, Java debugging, Helm charts, JFrog, ELK, Akeyless or Vault.

Company
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Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk. It is a sub-organization of Choice Point. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Alpharetta, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.