Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

LexisNexis

Senior SRE modernizing Azure platforms, observability, and disaster recovery for LexisNexis patent data systems. Driving reliability, incident response, automation, and AI-assisted operations.

Posted 9/10/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $104,900 - $174,700 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on reliability, incident response, and operational excellence. Proficient in modernizing processes and tooling, mentoring team members, and implementing AI-assisted development practices.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Microsoft AzureCI/CD and SDLC ImprovementsIncident Analysis and Performance OptimizationAI-Assisted Development Tools

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Hard Skills

Reliability EngineeringToil ReductionFull-Stack ObservabilityInfrastructure-as-CodeConfiguration ManagementDisaster Recovery PlanningRoot-Cause AnalysisFailover TestingPerformance OptimizationHigh-Availability Systems

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationInfluencing Technical Standards

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft AzureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure DevOps PipelinesGitHub ActionsTerraformAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsDatadogAI/ML ToolsObservability Standards

Industry Keywords

Life SciencesOperational Health ReportingService Level Objectives (SLOs)Blameless Post-MortemsIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureKubernetesSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive day-to-day operations for the Life Sciences SRE team under priorities set by the SRE Manager
Deliver reliability and toil-reduction initiatives with SREs and contractors
Partner with the Senior Software Architect for Life Sciences to modernize processes, tooling, and development strategy
Collaborate with SREs across Reed Tech to converge on common tools, standards, and practices
Influence service level objectives across Life Sciences production systems
Serve as an escalation point during major incidents and guide restoration efforts
Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and application issues across development and production environments
Improve the SRE framework and contribute to shared SRE knowledge documentation
Create disaster recovery plans
Mentor junior SREs and prepare them for on-call readiness
Champion AI-assisted development and operational tooling
Implement reusable dashboards, observability standards, SLOs, and error budgets
Conduct incident analysis, performance optimization, failover testing, production recovery, and blameless post-mortems
Support platform modernization, CI/CD and SDLC improvements, standard platform adoption, and operational health reporting
Promote SRE best practices, identify skill gaps, and champion automation and toil reduction

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced SRE professional serving as a technical resource and escalation point
Experience owning complex reliability and toil-reduction projects
Experience with Microsoft Azure
Experience with VMs/VMSS, App Service, Azure Functions, and growing use of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines
Experience with GitHub and/or GitHub Actions
Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; Datadog experience is supplemental
Experience with Terraform
Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Codex
Interest or hands-on experience applying AI/ML to observability, automation, or incident response
Comfortable evaluating emerging AI tooling
Strong understanding of full-stack observability, incident analysis, and performance optimization
Experience with on-call readiness, major incident response, blameless post-mortems, and root-cause analysis
Advanced knowledge of high-availability systems, resiliency patterns, deployment strategies, and recovery practices
Experience with failover testing, production recovery, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tools
Experience with platform modernization, CI/CD, SDLC improvements, and operational health reporting
Ability to influence technical standards and tooling and mentor team members

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible hours
Shared parental leave
Study assistance
Sabbaticals
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) with match
Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellness platform with incentives
Headspace app subscription
Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
Life and Accidental Death Insurance
Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity
Family bonding and family care leaves
Adoption and surrogacy benefits
Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups
Up to two days of paid leave each to volunteer with your charity of choice
Annual incentive bonus