Senior
Site Reliability Engineer III
Are you passionate about building reliable, secure and scalable cloud platforms?
Would you like to lead Azure reliability initiatives and help engineering teams adopt Site Reliability Engineering best practices?
About the Business
LexisNexis 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 https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance.
About the Role
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, operate and continuously improve secure, highly available Azure platforms that support large-scale production environments. You will provide technical leadership for reliability initiatives, develop reusable automation and partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to improve resilience and operational performance.
Responsibilities
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Design, implement and maintain highly available Azure infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Virtual Machines, Functions, App Services, Storage, Networking, Key Vault and Azure Monitor.
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Define and maintain Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets, driving continuous improvements in platform reliability and availability.
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Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, developing resilience patterns such as auto-scaling, self-healing, disaster recovery, multi-region failover and high-availability architectures.
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Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, build reusable platform components and automate manual operational processes using Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
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Operate and optimise AKS clusters, establish container security standards, implement GitOps practices using tools such as ArgoCD and manage upgrades, capacity and workloads.
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Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed-tracing strategies, maintaining dashboards through Grafana and Azure Monitor to identify service degradation proactively.
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Build and support reliable, repeatable and auditable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, including blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
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Provide technical leadership, mentor SRE I and SRE II engineers, promote SRE practices across teams and participate in on-call rotations and major incident management.
Requirements
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Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering, including supporting large-scale production environments.
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Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service.
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Advanced Terraform skills and experience designing reusable Infrastructure as Code components.
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Strong Git and GitOps practices, with experience using CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
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Strong Linux administration, scripting and programming skills using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
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Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring and proactive alerting.
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Skills in incident management, root cause analysis, capacity planning, performance optimisation, disaster recovery testing and production operations.
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Technical leadership, strategic thinking, problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, customer focus and an automation-first approach. Azure, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications are welcomed.
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here
Primary Location Base Pay Range: Ireland - Dublin (Rockfield Central) €51,400 - €85,700.
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