What are the responsibilities and job description for the SRE Lead position at RELX?
SRE LEAD
Position can work from any of the following locations:
- Alpharetta, GA
- Boca Raton, FL
- Dayton, OH
This position provides leadership, management, direction, and vision to SRE engineers including contractors/consultants and interns needed to support, run, and change activities in the Azure infrastructure development life cycle. The position works closely with development peers and project leaders/managers.
Experience & Education
- 7 years experience and proven background working in a SRE, dev-ops position.
- BSc Engineering/Computer Science/IT Security or relevant experience.
- Desirable – AWS / Azure Experience
- Industry certification desirable
Advanced experience in the following technical areas:
Operations – 50% Technical Weighting
- Organize, secure, and automate existing infrastructure and deployments
- Use of orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
- Experience working with containerised workloads such as Docker and Kuebernetes.
- Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.
- Professional Experience with common source control tools – e.g Git, SVN
- Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline and Blue-Green deployment methodologies.
- Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
- Configuration Management tools – e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents.
- Experience with Log Management tools e.g – Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk
- Use of Secret Management services e.g - Hashicorp Vault
- Experience with any high-level programming language.
- System and application monitoring – e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios etc.
- Previous Analytic and troubleshooting experience is required
- Professional experience of working within the public cloud – Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
- Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge
- Ability to act as a point of expertise, advise others in the team on best practise and impart knowledge.
Development – 30%
- Coding and scripting experience – e.g. Powershell, Bash, YMAL, Python or equivalent
- Continuous Integration/Delivery Tools – e.g. Gitlab, Github, Jenkins
- Cloud Architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
Management – 20%
- Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures.
- Advanced problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues.
- Advanced communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc.
- Strong organization/project planning, time management, and change management skills.
- Manage and encourage new ideas from staff to foster improvements through innovations
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