Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Site Reliability Engineering Lead Are you passionate about building resilient systems and empowering teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions? Do you thrive in designing and managing scalable platforms that keep services running smoothly? About our team: The LexisNexis Intellectual Property (IP) division ( https://www.lexisnexisip.com ) provides international patent content and a suite of online and analytic tools that meet the evolving needs of the intellectual property market. We deliver data to support LexisNexis IP search and analytics applications, empowering our customers with actionable insights and metrics for critical business decisions. Our corporate culture thrives on excellence, innovation, and a strong dedication to our customers, employees, and communities. Working here means joining a vibrant, diverse, and collaborative team where you are free to grow and contribute actively. About the role: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated SRE and Platform/Cloud Engineering Lead to lead a team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and resilience of mission‑critical systems for our IP business. This role is pivotal in managing a small team of senior engineers, driving operational excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with the central SRE organization as well as work closely with IP product, development, architecture, and security teams to implement best practices in site reliability engineering, cloud platform management, and environment support for internal development and customer systems. The Lead will lead initiatives around incident response, disaster recovery, automation, monitoring, FinOps cost optimisation, and customer support escalations. This is a junior management‑level position requiring strong leadership, technical depth across cloud and infrastructure technologies, and the ability to influence both technical direction and business outcomes. Skills & Experience: Cloud Platforms & Services: Azure and AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Azure VMs, Functions). Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ARM/BICEP. Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Helm, ArgoCD. Monitoring & Observability: Datadog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, along with an understanding of baseline metrics. Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, TypeScript, JavaScript. Programming Knowledge: Java, .NET/C#, SQL, React (for integration with supported products). Systems & Networking: Linux/UNIX/Windows administration, networking, and security best practices. Specialized Knowledge: Databricks, FinOps cost management, disaster recovery planning. Core Competencies: Incident management, troubleshooting, IT service management frameworks, and GitOps/DevOps practices. Soft Skills: Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices. Strong understanding of incident management, monitoring tools, IT service management frameworks and automation processes. Previous experience in customer‑facing roles or managing customer support escalations. Excellent technical problem‑solving and troubleshooting abilities. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams. Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and guiding technical teams. Strong collaboration and advanced communication skills at peer and senior management level. Strong skills in setting, communicating, implementing, and achieving business objectives and goals through indirect leadership of and collaboration with others. Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills across multiple functional groups and departments, and strong delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of varying size and complexity. Advanced problem‑solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues; prior success extracting/translating findings into alternatives/solutions; and identifying risks/impacts and schedule adjustments to facilitate management decision‑making. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast‑paced environment. Passion for continuous learning and staying up‑to‑date with industry trends and best practices. Responsibilities: The SRE and Platform/Cloud Engineering Lead will be accountable for the following areas Building & Leading the SRE Organization Hire, mentor, and lead a team of SRE and platform engineers to ensure timely and accurate performance of all team activities Foster a culture of reliability, blameless post‑mortems, and proactive incident prevention. Define and implement SRE best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance. Customer & Incident Management – Manage intake, prioritization, and resolution of critical customer‑reported issues. Act as an escalation point for high‑severity incidents and outages. In collaboration with Product Support and Development Managers, ensure SLAs, performance benchmarks, and response protocols are met. Live System Monitoring & Support Design and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems. In collaboration with Product Support Manager, lead incident management from detection to resolution and post‑incident analysis. Ensure system high availability goals are met. Oversee disaster recovery and business continuity planning within IP Technology organization. Provide support for cloud resources management and workload capacity planning. Drive automation to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency. Platform & Cloud Engineering Support product development teams with infrastructure, non‑functional requirements, and environment stability. Manage Kubernetes deployments, Databricks environments, and other critical platforms. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, reliable, and cost‑effective platform and cloud solutions. Ensuring all systems comply with security patching and vulnerability management tools. In collaboration with architects, provide support for FinOps practices to monitor, optimize, and control cloud costs. Leadership & Continuous Improvement – Provide clear direction, performance evaluations, and career growth for team members. Ensure proper documentation, reporting, and compliance with security and regulatory standards. Promote continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence. Writing and reviewing documentation for the management, improvement, and support of platforms/assets. Completing complex bug fixes and root‑cause investigations. Working closely with development and platform teams to understand requirements and translate them into high‑quality solutions. Implementing infrastructure management and deployment best practices, including code/solution reviews. Operating in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders. Why Join Us? Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Benefits Dutch Share Purchase Plan Annual Profit Share Bonus Comprehensive Pension Plan Home, office or commuting allowance Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave Flexible working hours Personal Choice budget Variety of online training courses and career roadshows Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office Internal communities and networks Various employee discounts Recruitment introduction reward Work from anywhere Employee Assistance Program (global) Annual Event 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. EEO Know Your Rights. #J-18808-Ljbffr