Sr. Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer II

Do you have programming, cloud infrastructure, and containerization expertise?

Would you like to join our great reliability engineering team?

Responsibilities

- Contribute to architectural decisions and the development of our infrastructure

- Collaborate with DevOps and Application support teams to improve system reliability and performance.

- Evolve our processes into a best-in-class, resilient environments to host our applications.

- Automate operational tasks, such as IaaS (Terraform) and other configuration management capabilities to implement changes on Prem and in the Cloud environment.

- Improve the workflow of our infrastructure environment by integrating our platform directly into product engineering teams CI/CD development environments

- Gather and analyze metrics to support our data-driven engineering decisions.

- Help create a resilient environment that is streamlined to detect, diagnose and resolve issues to minimize impact on our users and the business. 

- Ability to help manage Situations / Outage

- Suggest defects and product / infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation

- Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for production systems.

- Help monitor and make suggestions to improve operational efficiencies including labor, cloud costs and infrastructure usage. 

**We are looking for an energetic and knowledgeable Sr. Site Reliability Engineer**, with an entrepreneurial mind, who wants to grow their professional career! Technology moves fast; the ability learn on the job and a passion for new technology is a necessity.

Requirements

- BS in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent additional experience

- 3+ years in Systems Engineering including experience with server configuration, monitoring, network design and high availability.

- Demonstrable knowledge of operating systems (like LINUX and Windows)

- Knowledge of DevOps concepts and best practices

- Experience designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure including virtual, serverless, and containerized compute workloads

- Experience working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform

- Good knowledge of Cloud-native applications and how to support them in the cloud ecosystem. 

- Knowledge of Containers like Docker & Kubernetes

- Proficiency in programming and scripting languages (i.e., Python, Groovy, Bash)

- Proven ability to support best practices for metrics gathering, monitoring and alarming.

- Ability to help automate the server provisioning process on Prem and in the cloud to reduce the labor of our engineering and data center operations team. 

- Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services

-Excellent written and spoken English language skills with an ability to speak and clearly

-Outstanding customer service skills and dedication to customer satisfaction

-Excellent documentation skills

-Proven ability to work independently

-Ability to work well in a team environment

-Comfortable with “crisis” situations that require critical thinking, problem definition and diagnosis skills

-Ability to speak confidently with Developers, Engineers and Management

Plus skills but not required

- Advanced knowledge of agile software development methodologies

- Passionate believer in codifying everything! (CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm)

- Authoring complex scripts or tools, with a focus on process automation, using a major scripting language such as Python or PowerShell.

- Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), Identity Access Management (IAM), Microsoft Directory Services (MS AD), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and Federated Identity Management.

- Strong understanding of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines and practical experience implementing it within a large project

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

• 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

Working with Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
-Health care plans and benefits
-Modern Family Benefits, including maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy
-Life assurance and accident policies
-Comprehensive pension and retirement plans
-Access to learning and development resources
Your recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location

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