Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

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Senior SRE modernizing Azure reliability, observability, and disaster recovery for LexisNexis patent-data platforms. Driving automation, incident response, 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 with a focus on operational excellence, incident management, and platform modernization. Proficient in leveraging AI-assisted tools and implementing CI/CD practices to enhance system reliability and performance.

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Senior Site Reliability EngineerMicrosoft AzureAzure DevOps PipelinesFull-Stack ObservabilityInfrastructure-as-Code

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Hard Skills

AI-Assisted Coding ToolsTerraformIncident AnalysisPerformance OptimizationFailover TestingProduction RecoveryConfiguration ManagementSLOsError BudgetsDisaster Recovery Plans

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationCoachingTechnical AdvisingProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Azure MonitorLog AnalyticsDatadogGitHubGitHub ActionsAzure Kubernetes ServiceVMs/VMSSApp ServiceAzure FunctionsCI/CD

Industry Keywords

Life SciencesSRE Best PracticesOperational Health ReportingToil ReductionService Level Objectives

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 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 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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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 source control and GitHub; GitHub Actions under evaluation
Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; Datadog 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
Comfort 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, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tools
Experience with platform modernization, CI/CD, SDLC improvements, and operational health reporting
Ability to act as a trusted technical advisor and drive alignment on standards and tooling
Ability to mentor engineers, identify skill gaps, and champion automation and toil reduction

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working 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 insurance
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 and volunteer