At RELX, we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer I to join our team. This is a developed professional level role where you will be responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects. You will leverage hands-on experience across most SRE practices, provide informal guidance to junior staff, and be on-call to assist others during incidents.
What You'll Do
- Create monitoring queries and establish service level baselines.
- Support senior engineers during incidents and participate in post-mortems and RCAs.
- Participate in disaster recovery tests and test system failover across geographic regions.
- Implement automation and execute code in production environments.
- Contribute to SRE knowledge documentation, including articles and training material.
- Support the creation of infrastructure topology drawings and deployment workflows.
- Test availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments.
- Benchmark and document test performance results for production readiness reviews.
- Participate on-call to assist in Major Incident recovery and provide on-call support for other SRE engineers.
- Automate system recovery using Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration Management scripts.
- Create and present RCAs, including executive summaries, timelines, and follow-on actions.
- Lead scenario modelling exercises and create workflows triggered by an SLO breach.
- Write advanced automation scripts for incident response, including failovers and rollbacks.
- Analyze toil by examining ticket trends and recommend team focus areas.
- Work independently on small toil elimination projects.
- Create templated observability dashboards and configuration using code.
- Influence the setting of appropriate SLOs and Error Budgets.
- Work within or manage a cross-functional team to migrate applications to standard platforms.
- Give direction and consultancy to others implementing new Paved Road features or Platforms.
- Analyze and make recommendations to improve SDLC and CI/CD processes.
- Create actionable reports on the operational health and lifecycle of platform and product components.
What We're Looking For
- Advanced hands-on experience with DevOps practices including monitoring, virtual networks, cloud storage, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, configuration management, and securing cloud applications.
- Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack.
- Ability to bring clarity to complex incidents or performance issues.
Technical Stack
- Azure (AKS, etc)
- Terraform
- GitHub
- CI/CD
- Java debugging
- Helm charts
- JFrog
- ELK
- Akeyless or Vault
Benefits & Compensation
- Country-specific benefits package.
- Eligibility for an annual incentive bonus.
- Compensation range: $95,300 - $158,800.
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.
