Do you enjoy being challenged?

Do you enjoy leading a team that develops platforms that enable engineers to succeed? 

About the Business
 

At ICIS, our mission is to optimize the world’s resources. We help companies make strategic, sustainable decisions by bringing transparency to markets across the world. We create a comprehensive view of commodities markets, providing companies with the data and intelligence to successfully navigate across global value chains every day. Our customers benefit from instant access to price assessments, reports and forecasts, a dedicated news channel and supply and demand data. You can learn more about ICIS at the link below. https://www.icis.com/explore

About the role:

As a an Site Reliability Engineer at ICIS, you will work alongside the development, architecture and service management teams. Through code and cloud infrastructure, you will configure, maintain, monitor, and optimize applications and their associated infrastructure to independently decompose and iteratively improve on existing solutions. You are a significant contributor to your team by sharing your knowledge of end-to-end operations, availability, reliability, and scalability of your application or platform. This role is instrumental in bridging the gap between development and operations, applying engineering principles to operational challenges to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the enhancement of system reliability and scalability, architecting robust solutions that meet the dynamic needs of the business while ensuring security and architectural excellence.
• Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design and implement deployment approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to improve the velocity of software development lifecycle.
• Collaborates with other software engineers and teams to design, develop, test, and implement availability, reliability, scalability, and solutions in their applications
• Implements infrastructure, configuration, and network as code for the applications and platforms in your remit
• Collaborates with Infrastructure, DevOps and Development teams, key stakeholders, and SRE team members to resolve complex problems
• Understands service level indicators and utilizes service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact customers
• Supports the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within your team

Requirements 

• Experience with cloud platforms and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
• Have experience in DevOps, SRE implementation and in evolving practices and ways of working through multi-disciplinary teams, business frameworks and culture.
• Experience in site reliability culture and principles and familiarity with how to implement site reliability within an application or platform
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or Terraform
• An understanding with container and container orchestration such as ECS, Kubernetes, and Docker
• An understanding with addressing networking, performance and optimization issues, with a demonstrated capability in diagnosing and resolving such problems efficiently.
• Experience of Linux and networking fundamentals
• Be able to act s the ‘change lead’ for DevOps, quality assurance practice implementation and project initiatives. Educating and sharing knowledge to team members to enable them to effectively contribute to backlog items related to infrastructure provisioning, monitoring and best practice.
• An understanding of the processes involved in release, integration, and deployment, along with an awareness of the promotion pathways within these processes.
• Experience in observability principles and practices, encompassing white & black box monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems to ensure transparency and actionable insights into system performance and health. Define and Implement SLI, SLO, and Error Budget Policy. SLO Alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Cloud technologies (Private and Public Cloud)
• Experience of Troubleshooting issues and manage incidents to resolution, including a post incident RCA and identify preventative action items, Identify and reduce Toil in the environment
• Be able to contribute to large and collaborative teams by presenting information in a logical and timely manner with compelling language and limited supervision
• Be able to facilitate ntechnical roadmaps by ensuring all non-functional designs and patterns are implemented in all projects across the board for the delivery of quality technical deliverables. Ensuring that this is aligned with core technology strategy and reduces or mitigates technical debt.

Women in Tech: 

Cirium is a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is actively supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology: 

• Mentoring scheme for women in technology 
• Women’s network forum 
• Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG) 
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions proudly supports the Tech Talent Charter 

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk Solutions team and how we work here

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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