Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

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’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the role

As a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer, you will help shape and evolve our global CI/CD platform. You will work closely with development teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable delivery pipelines, alongside infrastructure-as-code templates and reusable tooling that enable teams to ship software efficiently and consistently.
You will contribute to shared platform capabilities including Jenkins pipelines and shared libraries, Terraform and CloudFormation modules, Python-based tooling, and GitOps practices that support secure and observable deployments across AWS and other environments.
 

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
• Develop and support Jenkins shared libraries, pipeline templates, and reusable deployment patterns, and support the migration of legacy pipelines to standardised CI/CD approaches supported by reusable tools, clear documentation, and well-defined best practices.
• Integrate automated security, quality, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines And Improve observability across delivery and runtime environments using tools such as Open Telemetry.
• Build and support Python-based tooling, packages, and automation that improve platform capability and developer experience.
• Use AI tools in day-to-day engineering workflows to improve efficiency, support delivery, and enhance ways of working.
• Collaborate with application teams to design CI/CD flows that balance team needs with platform standards And Create and maintain onboarding guides, technical documentation, and best practices to support adoption and self-service.
• Provide operational support for team-owned pipelines and platform components, including support during critical incidents or emergency situations where broader engineering assistance is needed.
• Mentor team members and contribute to a collaborative culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements 

• Hands-on experience working with AWS and infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation across a range of environments.
• Strong experience designing, building, and supporting CI/CD platforms, with practical expertise in Jenkins, including shared libraries, pipeline templates, reusable deployment patterns, and modernizing legacy pipelines.
• Strong Python skills, including building reusable tooling, automation, or internal packages that improve platform capability and developer experience.
• Good understanding of container and deployment practices, including Docker, ECR, GitOps, and blue/green or similar deployment strategies.
• Experience integrating security, quality, and compliance controls into engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience improving observability across delivery and runtime environments, ideally using Open Telemetry and related monitoring practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support experience, including diagnosing pipeline and platform issues and supporting critical incidents when needed.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams and create clear technical guidance, onboarding material, and best practices.
• Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Practical experience using AI tools in daily engineering workflows to improve productivity and delivery outcomes, along with a willingness to learn, adapt, and keep developing new skills. 
• Experience with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, particularly the ability to troubleshoot issues in Kubernetes-hosted environments and identify whether the root cause is likely to sit with the platform, the application, or another team.

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 wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: - Medical Aid- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy- Study Leave 

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.

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