Sr Consulting/Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

In addition to the core responsibilities of a Site Reliability Engineer—focused on reliability, automation, and operational excellence across our services—this role will also include responsibilities within our SRE DBA function. This means your time and focus will be split between general SRE work and cloud/database engineering tasks in close collaboration with our DBA team.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our systems. You will work closely with engineering, product teams, and senior leadership to influence design decisions, contribute to disaster recovery strategies, manage incidents, and advocate for best practices in observability and reliability. As an SRE, you will have a direct impact on our platforms and automation initiatives, helping to establish standards and foster a culture of reliability across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• General SRE Work: Ensure the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of our services.
• Cloud/Database Engineering: Collaborate closely with our DBA team to manage both relational and non-relational database technologies.
• Database Deployment Automation: Help automate the deployment of database environments.
• Migrations: Support ongoing migrations, such as Oracle to Postgres.
• Performance Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot performance issues and assist with query optimization.
• Capacity Planning: Work on capacity planning and high availability configurations.
• Technology Exposure: Gain exposure to technologies like DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Redis, and Cassandra as part of our broader platform support strategy.

Design for Reliability:

• Provide guidance and influence key decisions on systems design and production readiness.
• Validate the impact of designs on on-call responsibilities, maintenance, cost, security, developer efficiency, and deployment velocity.
• Drive consensus on technical standards, architecture, and roadmap initiatives.
• Build trust with internal stakeholders and external customers by demonstrating the implementation of SRE and security practices.

Disaster Recovery:

• Contribute to business continuity plans by demonstrating how SRE practices enhance disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
• Act as an escalation point during crises, providing clear executive-level communication and engineering direction to teams.
• Ensure DR tests are scheduled and remediation tasks are completed in a timely manner.

Incident Management:

• Analyze incident trends and make recommendations for architectural, design, or operational changes that support business investments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define priority levels and appropriate response times for products or services.
• Work closely with Product Owners and senior leadership to make critical decisions during major incidents.

Observability:

• Promote best practices in observability across technology and product teams, presenting internally and externally at conferences and webinars.
• Foster collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and Product Owners to align on the value of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and balance feature velocity with reliability.
• Provide recommendations for changes in system designs or operating models based on performance and reliability reports.

Platforms and Automation:

• Seek engineering and architecture consensus on new standard components and services to be included in the Paved Road, such as platforms and CI/CD tools.
• Advocate for the adoption, standardization, and broader contributions through inner sourcing, with a deep understanding of its benefits to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Champion the use of the Paved Road and work to eliminate inefficiencies and silos within the technology organization.

Reliability Culture:

• Evangelize SRE principles and practices across technology and product teams.
• Simplify complex reliability and security topics, making them accessible for a broader audience.
• Define key SRE learning topics and integrate them into a structured training strategy and learning program.
• Mentor junior SREs, providing long-term direction for their career development.

Requirements

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Familiarity with cloud/database engineering tasks.
• Knowledge of AWS and various database technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and query optimization skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. ​
• Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related technical fields.
• Strong understanding of system design, disaster recovery, incident management, and observability practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and platform engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A passion for fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan - Wellbeing: 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

About the Business 

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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