Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I 

Are you excited to work with a variety of products and technologies in a collaborative and supportive environment?

Do you enjoy sharing knowledge and learning with colleagues from diverse backgrounds?

About the Business 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a trusted partner in risk assessment. Within our insurance vertical, we provide customers with innovative solutions and decision tools that leverage public and industry-specific content, advanced technology, and analytics. Our products help drive informed, data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle, supporting operational efficiency and reducing risk. Insurance Risk Solutions 

About the Team 

Our teams are structured in inclusive and collaborative squads, each consisting of a Squad Lead, Business Analyst, Dev Lead, Developers, and Testers. This structure fosters strong connections and empowers members to contribute their unique perspectives and deliver outcomes together. 

About the Role 

This is a developed professional level role for an SRE. Individuals are responsible for challenging reliability and toil reduction projects. At this level, SREs have hands-on experience across most SRE practices. They have a good understanding of how to observe distributed systems and their dependencies, and how to automate recovery to protect service levels. SREs are on-call and assist others during incidents. They contribute to process improvements through experience and knowledge. Individuals in this role provide informal guidance to junior staff.

Responsibilities 

• Design, modify, develop, write, and implement data applications and REST APIs in cloud.

• Develop microservices or middleware APIs under a micro-service styled architecture.

• Fix issues in the existing systems by using the industry standard coding practices.

• Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.

• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.

• Implement DevOps strategy in existing and new project.

• Upgrade and enhance existing C++ applications to enterprise Java.

• Work closely with other development team members to understand complex product requirements and translate them into software designs.

• Successfully implement development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews.

• Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders.

• Resolve complex technical issues, as necessary.

• Keep abreast of new technology developments.

• Design and work with complex data models.

• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least 7/8+ years of experience of software development programming with enterprise Java

• Proficiency in Java programming with Spring Framework

• At least 3 years of experience with Microservices asynchronous event driven programming or event messaging programming under a pub/sub model.

• Strong secure coding and system vulnerability mitigation experience.

• Strong experience in AI-assisted software development.

• Strong knowledge of Docker containers, Docker CLI and strong practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Kubernetes CLI is desired

• Expertise in other development languages including but not limited to PowerShell, Python, and SQL is desired.

• Strong knowledge of multiple data storage subsystems, especially relational databases including MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle.

• Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).

• Strong proficiency with data manipulation language including optimization techniques.

• Strong understanding of normalized/dimensional data modeling principles.

• Strong research skills.

• Strong proficiency with DevOps and Continuous Integration/Delivery tools and Linux bash scripting is desired: Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Linux Bash scripting.

• Strong experience working with one of the 2 major Cloud vendors (AWS, Azure) and/or a strong foundational understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS services offerings is desired: (I.E Azure VMs, Azure App Services, Azure Container instances, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Database for MySql, etc.)

• Good to have Azure/AWS fundamental and/or developer certifications.

• Experience with Azure Cloud services in particular running containerized workloads in Azure Kubernetes Services is a big plus.

• Ability to interface competently with other technical personnel or team members to finalize requirements.

• Ability to work well with internal and external technology resources.

• Ability to partner and lead internal and external technology resources in solving complex business needs.

• Knowledge of test-driven development and unit testing frameworks/methodologies.

• Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of complex system components.

• Good oral and written communications skills.

• 7/8+ years of Software Engineering experience

• B.Sc. (IT)/B.Sc. (CS)/BCA/MCA/BE (Computers/IT) or equivalent experience required.

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