Location: The position is open to applicants based in the region of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, or looking for Home-Based/Fully-Remote in the United Kingdom.About Role:LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead with proven industry experience to join our global engineering team.This role will be a key player determining and refining on-going DevOps practices, agile support and deployment processes, as we continue to develop and improve the reliability of our public cloud based services. You will enjoy working in a friendly environment and benefit from our investment in staff. The role also requires On-Call rotation for off peak hours to maintain 24/7, 365 system availability.About Team:Our teams are collaborative and forward-thinking; the successful candidate will help shape the operations and support for critical applications, customers and projects, working closely with Development, QA, IT Operations and Customer Operations teams. You will be a collaborative team player, with ability to influence, communicate and solve problems effectively, whilst handling a fast-paced working environment.Main Responsibilities:<ul><li>Lead SRE teams to build / maintain Infrastructures as Code, software services (PaaS and SaaS), security policies and continuous integration / deployment processes</li><li>Removal of technical debt, security hardening and continued optimisation of our cloud based environments</li><li>Maintaining critical production services with a view to provide best possible uptime and a huge focus on reliability around tier 1 / mission critical 24/7 services</li><li>Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams</li><li>Emphasis on leading FinOps processes for continuous review and ongoing cost optimisation</li></ul>Essential Skills and Attributes:People 40%  -  Leading SRE Team/s to ensure:<ul><li>Rotating staff within the teams across products / platforms to ensure broad experience / skill-set</li><li>Sharing and collaboration across other SRE Managers/Leads/Cloud Centre of Excellence to ensure best of breed practices are adopted</li><li>A passion for mentoring and development of direct reports, including own ability to develop / keep up to date with a fast paced sector</li><li>Maintenance of systems / application documentation for technical and non-technical audiences</li><li>Set appropriate goals, ongoing objective setting and general line management of direct reports</li></ul>Financial 5%  -  Has strong business acumen and financial budgeting skills<ul><li>Maintain and forecast cloud OPEX spend</li><li>Ensure that cloud spend is reasonable and constantly optimised via FinOps processes </li></ul>Customer 20%<ul><li>Ultimate Accountability across a Group Of Products for uptime and resiliency of those products</li><li>Ensure 24/7 technical support and Service Level Agreements for customers is met</li></ul>Technical 30%<ul><li>Responsibility for examining complex releases to ensure system resilience</li><li>Drives automation to aid productivity, minimising the amount of traditional operational effort and maximise Infrastructure as Code</li><li>Good understanding of defensive, corrective, detective controls and general application troubleshooting</li><li>Delivery of resilient application stacks via Infrastructure as Code and other DevOps practices</li><li>Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications</li><li>Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues</li><li>Relevant experience of hosting missing critical apps within public cloud providers such as AWS and / or Azure through services such as EC2, ECS, AKS or ACA</li><li>Experience working with containerised workloads such as Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes</li></ul>Other 5%<ul><li>Manage Customer Reliability Engineering Activities driving Application Monitoring, Metrics, Incident Reviews and Long Term Actions</li><li>Support BISO activities / implementing InfoSec changes and experience of working with security based tooling such as Qualys, Wiz, Trufflehog, GitHub Advanced Security, etc</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>10+ years experience and proven background working in a technical, Cyber Security related position.</li><li>2+ years experience management (including people management)</li><li>BSc Engineering/Computer Science/IT Security or relevant experience.</li><li>Desirable – AWS / Azure Certifications</li></ul>Benefits of this role:<ul><li>The opportunity to work on a full range of challenging and interesting technologies and help to conquer some of the next generation of financial crime and compliance related challenges</li><li>Get to make a real difference to our customers and society</li><li>Help us to continually evolve and modernise our Technology stack, including contributing to our technology radar and the evolution of our products</li><li>The opportunity to learn or improve skillsets around a multitude of technologies, including but not limited to: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform</li></ul>What is it like to work here?Outstanding - you have probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we are involved with but what is really stands us out from the crowd is our culture. 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