Are you passionate about improving reliability, scalability, and resilience in complex database and infrastructure environments?
Do you enjoy solving operational challenges, reducing toil through automation, and helping teams deliver secure, high-performing services?
About the Business:
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below,
https://risk.lexisnexis.com
About our Team:
The SRE will partner with database administration and SRE teams to ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of database environments. Primary duties include supporting database provisioning and deployment across VM infrastructure and Chainguard-based container platforms, leading vulnerability remediation efforts, managing network peering integrations with other business units, and driving infrastructure modifications and improvements necessary to meet evolving business and operational needs.
About the Role:
This is a developed professional level role for an SRE. Individuals are responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects. At this level, SREs have hands-on experience across most SRE practices. They have a 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
- Support Business Services DBA team in all infrastructure builds and upgrades.
- Ensure alignment to SRE frameworks, standards, and operational best practices.
- Own prioritization of reliability engineering tasks within team backlogs.
- Lead incident management processes, including post-mortems and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Drive disaster recovery planning and production resilience testing.
- Support infrastructure cost analysis and optimization initiatives.
- Ensure team readiness for on-call support and incident response.
- Contribute to SRE capability building through training and coaching.
Requirements
- Experience working with cloud platforms (such as Amazon Web Services) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Background in DevOps, site reliability engineering practices, or related areas.
- Understanding of site reliability principles and their application in improving software development processes.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform).
- Ability to diagnose and resolve networking, performance, and optimization issues in distributed systems.
- Basic knowledge of Linux, networking, and storage fundamentals.
- Some experience in supporting database environments such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (such as PMM3,Grafana, Prometheus, or similar) is a plus.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within a diverse team.
Risk benefit statement
Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $104,900 - $174,700. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in Illinois, the base pay range is $110,100 - $183,500.If performed in Chicago, IL, the base pay range is $115,400 - $192,200. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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