Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Nottingham, Dublin
Do you have cloud infrastructure expertise?
Would you like to join our great reliability engineering team?
About the Business:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions part of the RELX Group 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 www.lexisnexis.com/insurance .
About the Team:
We count on our site reliability engineers to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance levels to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we’re seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale data in real time. Specifically, we’re searching for someone who has fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint, and who enjoys collaborating with our cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.
About the role:
As a Site Reliability Engineer you will oversee the production environment by ensuring system availability and maintaining a comprehensive view of overall system health. Develop and implement fully automated software and systems to efficiently manage platform infrastructure and applications. Enhance the reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our software solutions. Continuously measure and optimize system performance, anticipating customer needs and driving innovation for ongoing improvement. Provide primary operational support and engineering expertise for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
- Gathering and analysing metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Partnering with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participating in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Creating sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
- Balancing feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
Requirements:
- Experience working as part of a system engineering role
- Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement
- Possess Strong Work Ethic, Self-direction, Collaboration, Inquisitiveness
- Possess a strong desire to learn, with excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Previous success in technical engineering
- Linux Administration experience (RHEL, Centos preferable)
- Strong scripting skills; Bash, Python etc.
- Strong Cloud Platform experience Azure or AWS (Administration and Configuration)
- Experience in the use and management of containerisation and orchestration platforms
- Experience in the automation of infrastructure using code-Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
- Experience in the development of CI/CD pipelines and workflows
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here
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.
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