RELX
RELX
RELX develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers worldwide. Its products combine specialized content, data, and technology to support better decisions and stronger outcomes across Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions. RELX also operates across consulting, healthcare, and insurance-related markets, helping organizations improve productivity, manage risk, advance research, support legal work, and conduct more effective business transactions.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer II - Horsham, PA (Hybrid)

Lead reliability engineering for Azure-based Life Sciences platforms supporting LexisNexis patent data solutions. Own observability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, and AI-enabled operations.

Description

  • Lead daily operations for the Life Sciences SRE team
  • Execute priorities established by the SRE Manager
  • Deliver reliability and toil-reduction projects with SREs and contractors
  • Work with the Life Sciences Senior Software Architect to modernize processes, tooling, and development practices
  • Partner with Reed Tech SRE teams to align tools, standards, and operating practices
  • Help define service level objectives for Life Sciences production systems
  • Serve as an escalation point during major incidents and help coordinate service restoration
  • Diagnose and resolve complex systems and application problems across development and production environments
  • Advance the SRE framework and maintain shared reliability documentation
  • Develop disaster recovery plans
  • Mentor junior SREs and prepare them for on-call responsibilities
  • Promote AI-assisted development and operational tools
  • Build reusable dashboards and establish observability standards, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Perform incident reviews, performance tuning, blameless post-mortems, and root-cause analysis
  • Support platform modernization, CI/CD and SDLC improvements, standard platform adoption, and operational health reporting
  • Provide guidance on reliability enhancements and SRE standards
  • Advocate for SRE practices, coach engineers, identify capability gaps, and advance automation and toil reduction

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Successfully complete a background investigation and obtain Public Trust security clearance
  • Preferably live near the Horsham, Pennsylvania office to support a hybrid onsite schedule
  • Demonstrated SRE experience with the ability to provide technical guidance in reliability engineering
  • Experience leading complex reliability and toil-reduction initiatives
  • Experience serving as an escalation point during major incidents
  • Professional experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience with Azure VMs or VMSS, App Service, Azure Functions, and increasingly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Experience using Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Experience with source control and GitHub; GitHub Actions is being evaluated
  • Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, with Datadog used as a supplementary tool
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Codex
  • Interest in or practical experience applying AI/ML to observability, automation, or incident response
  • Willingness to test and assess emerging AI tools
  • Strong knowledge of full-stack observability, incident analysis, and performance optimization
  • Experience preparing teams for on-call work, mentoring, responding to major incidents, conducting blameless post-mortems, and performing root-cause analysis
  • Advanced understanding of highly available systems, resilience patterns, deployment strategies, and recovery practices
  • Experience with failover testing, production recovery, and automating recovery through Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage through a comprehensive multi-carrier program
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • Employee Share Purchase Plan
  • Wellness platform with incentive programs
  • Headspace subscription
  • Employee assistance and paid time-off programs
  • Short- and long-term disability, life and accidental death insurance, critical illness coverage, and hospital indemnity
  • Family benefits including bonding and family care leave, adoption assistance, and surrogacy benefits
  • Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care, and Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Up to two paid days each for participation in Employee Resource Groups and volunteering with a chosen charity
  • Flexible working hours
  • Shared parental leave
  • Study assistance
  • Sabbatical leave

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