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RELX INC Senior Site Reliability Engineer II**Horsham, PA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer II
Do you have programming, cloud infrastructure, and containerization expertise?Would you like to join our great reliability engineering team?
About Us
LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.
About the Role
LexisNexis Reed Tech is looking for a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer II to be a part of a high performing Infrastructure Squad which includes Cloud Engineers and System Engineers that supports technology modernization squads in Govt IP division. This is a key role that is being created to help us modernize the way we are building and managing our infrastructure environment. As part of our Systems Engineering team, you will be to help create and support better IaaS and Automation processes to help us better create and maintain our infrastructure environment on Prem and in the Cloud. This will help us better empower our product development teams to rapidly deliver modern experiences that delight our customers. This position will play an important role in engineering our infrastructure to be robust, secure, resilient, and observable. Your driving principle will be to simplify operational excellence. This role also provides guidance and technical leadership to other team members, help mentor other team members, and remove blockers. You'll work towards accelerating customer-centric product innovation by ensuring we maintain and promote the use of secure, high-performing, and reliable platforms and shared services.
Conditions of Employment:
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
You must successfully pass a background investigation and achieve Public Trust security clearance.
Home based Hybrid role within driving distance to our Horsham, PA Office
Responsibilities
Contribute to architectural decisions and the development of our infrastructure
Collaborate with DevOps and Application support teams to improve system reliability and performance.
Evolve our processes into a best-in-class, resilient environments to host our applications.
Automate operational tasks, such as IaaS (Terraform) and other configuration management capabilities to implement changes on Prem and in the Cloud environment.
Improve the workflow of our infrastructure environment by integrating our platform directly into product engineering teams CI/CD development environments
Gather and analyze metrics to support our data-driven engineering decisions.
Help create a resilient environment that is streamlined to detect, diagnose and resolve issues to minimize impact on our users and the business.
Ability to help manage Situations / Outage
Suggest defects and product / infrastructure enhancements to improve stability and automation
Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for production systems.
Help monitor and make suggestions to improve operational efficiencies including labor, cloud costs and infrastructure usage.
We are looking for an energetic and knowledgeable Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, with an entrepreneurial mind, who wants to grow their professional career! Technology moves fast; the ability learn on the job and a passion for new technology is a necessity.
Requirements
BS in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent additional experience
3+ years in Systems Engineering including experience with server configuration, monitoring, network design and high availability.
Demonstrable knowledge of operating systems (like LINUX and Windows)
Knowledge of DevOps concepts and best practices
Experience designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure including virtual, serverless, and containerized compute workloads
Experience working with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform
Good knowledge of Cloud-native applications and how to support them in the cloud ecosystem.
Knowledge of Containers like Docker & Kubernetes
Proficiency in programming and scripting languages (i.e., Python, Groovy, Bash)
Proven ability to support best practices for metrics gathering, monitoring and alarming.
Ability to help automate the server provisioning process on Prem and in the cloud to reduce the labor of our engineering and data center operations team.
Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services
-Excellent written and spoken English language skills with an ability to speak and clearly
-Outstanding customer service skills and dedication to customer satisfaction
-Excellent documentation skills
-Proven ability to work independently
-Ability to work well in a team environment
-Comfortable with “crisis” situations that require critical thinking, problem definition and diagnosis skills
-Ability to speak confidently with Developers, Engineers and Management
Plus skills but not required
Advanced knowledge of agile software development methodologies
Passionate believer in codifying everything! (CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm)
Authoring complex scripts or tools, with a focus on process automation, using a major scripting language such as Python or PowerShell.
Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), Identity Access Management (IAM), Microsoft Directory Services (MS AD), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and Federated Identity Management.
Strong understanding of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines and practical experience implementing it within a large project
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.
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 with Us
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:-Health care plans and benefits-Modern Family Benefits, including maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy-Life assurance and accident policies-Comprehensive pension and retirement plans-Access to learning and development resourcesYour recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location
LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is 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. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.