Observability & DevOps Tools Engineering Manager*** Hybrid in Raleigh, NC

About Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About the Role

Leads a team responsible for enterprise observability platforms and core development tooling, enabling fast detection, diagnosis, and resolution of production issues. Owns the reliability, security, scalability, performance, and instrumentation of CI/CD and developer platforms to improve system reliability and developer productivity at scale.

Partners with engineering, SRE/Operations, and Security to embed observability and operational excellence across the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead & develop the team: hire, coach, set priorities, and build a culture of reliability, ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.

• Set observability direction: define vision/roadmap and standards for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and service health; promote early instrumentation and SLI/SLO-based practices.

• Own DevOps Tools & CI/CD platforms: provide governance and strategic oversight for Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, and related tooling; define guardrails for repos, branching, pipelines, build agents, and integrations.

• Drive reliability & incident excellence: partner on incident response, RCA, and post-mortems; improve detection, triage, rollback, recovery, and on-call readiness.

• Platform engineering & automation: manage platforms via Infrastructure as Code; standardize configurations and operational practices; evaluate tools with an eye to capability, complexity, risk, and cost.

• Security, compliance & cost: ensure auditability, access controls/reviews, and logging meet enterprise requirements; optimize platform spend without degrading reliability or developer experience.

• Cross-functional communication: convert technical information into business value and coordinate stakeholders across application, platform, and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams in Observability/SRE/Platform/DevOps Tools.

• Hands-on background with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

• Experience operating/governing CI/CD and developer platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins).

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and/or Azure).

• Infrastructure as Code experience ( e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

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:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits

• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan

• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs

• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity

• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits

• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts

• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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