About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle – all while reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance
About the Role
The Sr. SRE is a professional level role for an Individual responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects. At this level, with hands-on experience across most SRE practices. This SRE should have good understanding of how to observe distributed systems and their dependencies, and how to automate recovery to protect service levels. SREs are on-call and assist others during incidents. They contribute to process improvements through experience and knowledge. Individuals in this role provide informal guidance to junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices.
- Automating any recurring toil tasks to improve efficiency
- Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications.
- Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.
- Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Product SRE and Project Management teams.
- Write and maintain systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Improve, maintain and support in-house automation tools like GitHub IAC CI/CD Pipelines, AWS & Azure automation, front end UI change management tools
Requirements
- Hands on with Configuration Management tools – e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents.
- Professional experience of working at least 5+ years within the public cloud – Azure & AWS or GCP.
- Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.
- System and application monitoring – e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
- Professional Experience of working at least 3+ years on Infrastructure as a code tools i.e. terraform
- Experience working with containerized/serverless workloads such as Docker, Kuberrnetes, AWS Cloud formations, AWS Lambdas
- Professional experience of working at least 5+ years with common source control tools – e.g Git, SVN, GitHub
- Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
- Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practice and impart knowledge.
- Experience with any high-level programming language. Python
- BSc Engineering/Computer Science or relevant experience.
Desirable Skills
- Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.
- Experience with Blue-Green deployment methodologies.
- Experience with Log Management tools e.g – ELK Stack, Graylog Azure mo or Datadog
- Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
- Use of Secret Management services e.g - Hashicorp Vault, Azure Key vault or AWS KMS
AWS / Azure Certifications a plus
Women in Tech:
LexisNexis Risk is supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:
Culture and Benefits:
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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
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