Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

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Senior SRE modernizing Azure platforms and incident response for LexisNexis patent data solutions. Driving reliability, disaster recovery, 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 management, and operational excellence. Proficient in modernizing processes and tooling, mentoring junior engineers, and implementing best practices in high-availability systems.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Microsoft Azure ExperienceTerraform ExperienceAI-Assisted Coding ToolsIncident Analysis and Performance Optimization

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Hard Skills

Reliability EngineeringToil-Reduction ProjectsFull-Stack ObservabilityInfrastructure-as-CodeConfiguration ManagementDisaster Recovery PlanningCI/CD ImprovementsRoot-Cause AnalysisHigh-Availability SystemsPerformance Optimization

Soft Skills

MentoringCoachingCollaborationTechnical AdvisingProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Azure DevOps PipelinesGitHubAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsDatadogAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)AI/ML ToolsGitHub ActionsVMs/VMSSAzure Functions

Industry Keywords

SRE Best PracticesOperational Health ReportingIncident ResponseAutomation InitiativesService Level Objectives (SLOs)

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureKubernetesSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive day-to-day operations for the Life Sciences SRE team, supporting 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
Participate in major incident resolution as an escalation point 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 and prepare junior SREs 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, coach engineers, identify skill gaps, and lead automation and toil-reduction initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced SRE who uses knowledge of internal and external issues to improve services and processes
Experience owning complex reliability and toil-reduction projects
Experience acting as an escalation point during major incidents
Microsoft Azure experience
Experience with VMs/VMSS, App Service, Azure Functions, and growing use of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure DevOps Pipelines experience
Source control experience with GitHub; GitHub Actions under evaluation
Azure Monitor and Log Analytics experience; Datadog experience supplemental
Terraform experience
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 experimenting with and evaluating emerging AI tooling
Strong understanding of full-stack observability, incident analysis, and performance optimization
Experience with on-call readiness, mentoring, 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, and automating recovery processes using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools
Experience supporting platform modernization, CI/CD and SDLC improvements, standard platform capabilities, and operational health reporting
Ability to act as a trusted technical advisor, contribute to modernization initiatives, drive alignment on standards and tooling, and mentor team members
Ability to promote SRE best practices, coach engineers, identify skill gaps, and champion automation and toil-reduction initiatives

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for 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, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
Family Benefits, including 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 and to volunteer with your charity of choice
Flexible hours
Shared parental leave
Study assistance
Sabbaticals