RELX

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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4 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and platform services.
  • Drive reliability through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilient architecture.
  • Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices, with extensive use of AWS CDK.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and rapid incident diagnosis.
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness reviews.
  • Create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity in partnership with engineering teams.
  • Drive adoption of the AWS AI-DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.
  • Participate in global follow-the-sun support and strengthen operational standards and documentation.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, cloud platform, or systems engineering experience in production environments.
  • Strong AWS experience, including Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, and serverless architecture.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and automation; AWS CDK experience is strongly preferred.
  • Strong Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, troubleshooting, and system security knowledge.
  • Deep observability experience covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and service health dashboards.
  • Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
  • Experience designing reliable systems using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
  • Experience with AI-assisted software development and familiarity with Spec-Driven Development practices and supporting tools.
  • Strong documentation, communication, cross-functional collaboration, independent decision-making, and escalation skills.
  • Preferred experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, or ECS.
  • Preferred experience with security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and high-trust production environments.
  • Preferred experience supporting globally distributed customer-facing services and follow-the-sun operations.
  • Preferred experience mentoring engineers and establishing SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering standards.
  • Background in identity verification, fraud prevention, fintech, or another security-sensitive domain.
  • Candidates must be based in Australia with full working rights and able to collaborate across time zones.

Benefits

  • Country-specific benefits are provided.
  • The employer offers a fair and accessible hiring process with accommodations available for applicants with disabilities or other needs.
  • The team is globally distributed and collaborates across time zones.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSKubernetesLinux

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
RELX

About RELX

1,001-5,000 employees

RELX provides information-based analytics, research content, and decision tools for scientists, legal and risk professionals, insurers, and governments. Through segments including Elsevier (STM), LexisNexis (legal and risk), and RX (exhibitions), it sells subscriptions, data services, and software platforms used in 180+ countries. Headquartered in London, it is a public company listed in London and Amsterdam.

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