Senior Site Reliability Engineer
RELX is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in Australia. Level rates it ; you can apply on RELX.
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- The posting mentions AWS, AWS Cdk and Lambda among its tools and skills.
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AI in this role
Build and operate secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure and reliability practices for global identity-verification services.
About the team
IDVerse is a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we're helping organisations build trust online through AI-powered identity verification and fraud prevention technology.
About the role
IDVerse is looking for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build and operate the secure, reliable AWS platform behind our global identity-verification services. This is a hands-on role with ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
You will work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team.
What you'll do
- 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.
- Partner with engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.
- Apply and drive adoption of the AWS AI-DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.
- Participate in global follow-the-sun support and help strengthen operational standards and documentation.
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Required qualifications
- 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 is a MUST TO HAVE.
- Proven 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, including 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 practical SRE methods such as 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, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently, make sound operational decisions, and escalate early when needed.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, or ECS.
- Experience with security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and high-trust production environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed, customer-facing services and follow-the-sun operations.
- Experience mentoring engineers and establishing SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering standards.
- Background in identity verification, fraud prevention, fintech, or another security-sensitive domain.
Location and collaboration
The team is globally distributed. Candidates must be based in Australia with full working rights and be able to collaborate across time zones.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at RELX rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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