Site Reliability Engineering Lead

LexisNexis Risk Solutions helps businesses manage risks and improve revenue growth, operational efficiency, and customer experience through solutions for fraud, identity, credit risk, and customer data management. The Site Reliability Engineering Lead will manage and develop an SRE team while driving reliability initiatives, incident response, automation, and scalable cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of SREs; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Own hiring, onboarding, and team capacity/resourcing decisions
• Set team goals, prioritize backlog, and drive planning
• Foster a blameless post-incident culture and cross-team collaboration with Dev, Security, and Product
• Lead reliability initiatives across infrastructure and services
• Drive incident response activities and continuous service improvement
• Champion automation and operational excellence across the platform
• Support the development of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native environments

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, security hardening, and troubleshooting at scale
• Expert experience with Terraform, including modular IaC design, state management, multi-environment provisioning, and policy-as-code
• Deep knowledge of Azure Cloud, including compute, networking, identity (AAD), storage, and cost optimization
• Experience designing and scaling CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, release strategies, and rollback automation
• Experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and SLO/SLA/error-budget management
• Strong automation skills, focused on eliminating toil through self-healing systems and infrastructure automation
• Advanced proficiency in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell for tooling and automation
• Deep understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and cloud-native networking
• Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles, including experience leading engineering teams
• Proven track record leading incident response and driving reliability improvements