Senior Software Engineer II reference: R94861

About our Team: LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today top model creators for each individual legal use case. About the Role: We seek an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to primarily support a development team in building a cutting-edge contract drafting tool. In this role, you will oversee CI/CD pipelines, releasing code, and AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure smooth, secure, and scalable deployments. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices and is eager to lead the implementation of DevOps best practices across teams. You will help enforce company standards for cloud hosting, security, and testing in all our processes and the migration to a standardised pipeline system.   Responsibilities: CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Maintain and enhance continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines (using GitHub Actions) to enable fast, safe, and consistent delivery of code changes. Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage and monitor our AWS cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) to ensure high availability, security, and performance across all environments. Container Orchestration: Oversee containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AWS EKS), optimising resource usage and deployment workflows for scalability. Infrastructure as Code: Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code configurations with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to handle multi-environment setups and ensure consistency across deployments. Security & Compliance: Integrate company security standards and compliance checks into infrastructure and pipeline design – including automated security scans, access controls, and best practices for cloud hosting. Pipeline Testing: Work closely with development and QA teams to incorporate automated testing (unit, integration, etc.) and quality gates into the CI/CD pipelines, upholding company standards for software testing. Troubleshooting & Optimisation: Proactively troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure or deployment issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing improvements to prevent recurrence and improve system reliability. Legacy Pipeline Migration: Lead the initiative to migrate existing legacy build/deployment pipelines to the standardised company pipeline platform, planning and executing the transition with minimal disruption to ongoing development. Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers across the organisation, providing technical guidance and training. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Development, QA, Security) to ensure DevOps processes align with project goals and foster a culture of shared responsibility for delivery. Requirements: Experience: Strong experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines in a production environment. AWS Expertise: Strong expertise in Amazon Web Services – hands-on experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.) following best practices for security, scalability, and reliability. Containerisation: Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes (deploying and operating production clusters, ideally on AWS EKS). CI/CD Pipelines: Proficiency in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions (or similar systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI). Ability to integrate automated tests and security checks into the pipeline. Infrastructure as Code: Extensive experience with Terraform and/ or AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning.  Automation & Scripting: Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python or other scripting languages) to automate workflows, build tooling, and streamline infrastructure operations. Cloud Security & Networking: Solid understanding of cloud networking and security (VPC design, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPN, IAM policies, encryption best practices) to ensure robust and compliant infrastructure. Working for you: We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: ● Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days ● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits ● Wellbeing programs ● Life assurance ● Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme ● Save As You Earn share option scheme ● Travel Season ticket loan ● Electric Vehicle Scheme ● Optional Dental Insurance ● Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave ● Employee Assistance Programme ● Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children ● RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you ● Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer ● Access to extensive learning and development resources ● Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120. Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy. At LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, our businesses span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that provide market-specific solutions. Approximately 11,100 employees in offices throughout the world support our brands by serving customers in more than 180 countries. . LexisNexis® Risk Solutions is part of RELX, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com.