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RELX INC Senior Observability Engineer in Cape Town, South Africa
Are you a driven in making informed decisions, and enhancing user experience?
Are you passionate about the interpretation of Data?
About our TeamLexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (https://www.relx.com/) , 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 RoleIn this role, you will be a vital instrument in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide valuable insights into system behavior, performance trends, and user experiences. You will design and implement solutions to monitor, trace, and provide insights into complex, multi-technology environments, with a focus on system reliability, security, and performance.
Responsibilities
Developing and maintain observability solutions using tools like Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Application Insights.
Ensuring that observability tools and configurations are managed through Infrastructure as Code for consistency and reliability.
Working closely with development, DevOps, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of observability solutions.
Documenting observability configurations, procedures, and best practices.
Providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
Requirements
Have experience in application observability and performance management.
Show experience managing managers and technical teams with either a data, infrastructure or platform focus
Be proficient with observability tools such as Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Application Insights.
Have good expertise in AWS and Azure cloud environments.
Have hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation and Terraform.
Have an engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working remotely from home and in our London office in a hybrid style
Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day
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.
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.
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.