Observability & DevOps Tools Engineering Manager

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Engineering Manager for Observability & DevOps Tools at LexisNexis, leading a team to improve system reliability and developer productivity. Overseeing observability platforms and driving DevOps tool governance.

Posted 4/9/2026full-timeRaleigh • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $118,300 - $219,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGrafanaJenkinsSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leads a team responsible for enterprise observability platforms and core development tooling, enabling fast detection, diagnosis, and resolution of production issues
Owns the reliability, security, scalability, performance, and instrumentation of CI/CD and developer platforms
Partners with engineering, SRE/Operations, and Security to embed observability and operational excellence across the software delivery lifecycle
Hire, coach, set priorities, and build a culture of reliability, ownership, learning, and continuous improvement
Define vision/roadmap and standards for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and service health
Provide governance and strategic oversight for Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, and related tooling
Drive reliability & incident excellence
Manage platforms via Infrastructure as Code; standardize configurations and operational practices
Ensure auditability, access controls/reviews, and logging meet enterprise requirements
Convert technical information into business value and coordinate stakeholders across teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading engineering teams in Observability/SRE/Platform/DevOps Tools
Hands-on background with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Experience operating/governing CI/CD and developer platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins)
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or Azure)
Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) with match and an 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

observability platformsCI/CDInfrastructure as Codecloud-native architecturesTerraformCloudFormation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillscoachingprioritizationcontinuous improvement