Senior SRE

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior SRE with proven industry experience to join our B1 Cloud project and SRE squad. Our teams are collaborative and forward-thinking; the successful candidate will build infrastructures code, software services (PaaS and SaaS) including security policies, in order to migrate all of LNRS applications running in our primary Boca Raton location to Microsoft Azure.

The position is highly visible across all internal stakeholder groups and will be working closely with various business verticals and their projects deliverables, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Customer Operations teams. You will be a collaborative team player, with the ability to influence, communicate and solve problems effectively, whilst handling a fast-paced working environment. This will be combined with a transition to DevOps practices, agile support, and deployment processes, as we start our migration to the public cloud.

You will be a key member of our team working with a diverse range of technologies. You will enjoy working in a friendly environment and benefit from our investment in staff.

Main Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that our Database migration from the Boca data center to Microsoft Azure is a success
• Delivery of resilient database designs and stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices.
• Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues.
• Writing and maintaining systems and database documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
• Assisting in the development of comprehensive information security procedures and practices and deployment of a detailed security audit across our database tier.
• Ensure 24/7 technical support and Service Level Agreement for customers is met
• Good understanding of defensive, corrective and detective controls and requirements
• Monitoring and ongoing support of critical, high revenue business applications.

Essential Skills and Attributes:

Operations

• Working knowledge of Terraform
• Previous Analytic and troubleshooting experience is required
• Experience migrating applications from on-premises to the public cloud.
• Experience with Blue-Green deployment methodologies.
• Experience working with containerized workloads such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with ELK and Azure Log Analytics
• Experience working with an enterprise RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
• Use of Secret Management services e.g - Hashicorp Vault
• Experience with any high-level programming languages (C# or PHP)
• Professional experience of working within the public cloud – Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Hands-on experience Linux and Windows server including support and troubleshooting.
• System and application monitoring using Grafana
• Experience with service meshes istio or linked (linked preferred)
• Professional Experience with Git
• Experience building pipelines in Github actions
• 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 practices and impart knowledge.

Development

• Coding and scripting experience – e.g. Powershell, Bash, 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.

Security

• Hands-on experience performing application static/dynamic security and penetration assessment with tools such as – SonarQube, CheckMarx, AppScan, BurpSuite, OWASP ZAP Proxy, WebInspect, Fortify, Veracode, Nessus etc.
• Good understanding of defensive, corrective and detective controls and requirements
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10/ SANS Top 25, identify vulnerabilities via manual and automated testing methods and how to effectively remediate vulnerabilities associated with each.
• Ability to recognize and escalate Security issues
• Exposure to application security testing (source code review and web/mobile application penetration tests)
• Familiarity with different types of security vulnerabilities and tools for countermeasure
• The candidate should be well versed in Information security principles at an Intermediate level

Desirable Skills:

• Desirable – AWS / Azure Certifications

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience and proven background working in a technical, Cyber Security related position.
• BSc Engineering/Computer Science/IT Security or relevant experience.
• Industry certification such as CSSP, AWS Certified Security, CSSLP desirable

Required Skills:

• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• GitHub
• Azure

Additional Skills:

• Must be Senior in Azure and Terraform. Needs to have some sort of Kubernates experience.