Site Reliability Engineering Lead

About Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions

Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas such as Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about Lexis Nexis Risk at the link,

Our team builds the cloud infrastructure that powers LNRS Data Engineering platforms, a petabyte-scale environment that turns data into information. This is a key leadership position. The successful candidate is a self-starter who assesses the situation, collaboratively develops a solution, and takes the initiative to improve performance, cost, and reliability at each opportunity. You will be supported by upper management that values your contribution, your ideas, and supports you and your team in solving problems to root-cause rather than applying band-aids or superficial fixes.

This role will lead a team of SRE’s that use the DORA Dev Ops Metrics as their North Star, and who are systematically driving towards operational excellence. You will set the example for a collaborative and forward-thinking team working with a diverse range of technologies so that they are able to enjoy an amiable and supportive environment, benefit from our investment in team skills-building and cross-training, and where we leverage each other’s strengths.

• Deliver cloud-native solutions and patterns that are highly elastic.
• Empower stakeholders and reduce toil through self-service pipelines.
• Drive best‑practices in cloud-native, security, and DRY through your team.
• Mentor your team in solving deep technical issues, advanced cloud infrastructure topics, and complex coding problems.
• Set an example of methodical, systematic task execution for your team.
• Work with project managers and stakeholders to provide status and reporting.
• Act as an ambassador to other teams, finding common ground and defining clear agreements.
• Drive projects to schedule.
• Perform code reviews with an eye toward rigor and best practice.
• Apply continuous process improving techniques across the operation.
• Automate everything.
• You will ensure that everything is IAC, and that your team’s infra can be rebuilt from the ground up without relying on manual configurations or the Azure Portal.

• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on‑prem to cloud
• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Git Hub Actions
• Deep knowledge of Azure Networking including private endpoints, private DNS zones, peerings, NSG rules, route tables, and VNETs.
• Experience with Azure Function Apps
• Knowledge of IaaS in Azure
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra , including RBAC, service principals, managed identities
• Expertise in a scripting language, either Power Shell or Bash.
• Experience implementing data virtualization technologies
• Experience managing cloud storage technologies (blob, table, file, queues, and services)
• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge

• Performance analysis and tuning
• Experience with Purview, Fabric, Unity Catalog highly desired
• Experience with Azure Data Factory highly desired
• Experience with Azure Machine Learning and Azure Data Bricks

Primary Location Base Pay Range:
Home based-Illinois $124,200 - $230,800. If performed in Chicago, IL, the base pay range is $130,200 - $241,800. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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