Relx Group

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

Relx Group$118K — $219K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience leading engineering teams in Observability/SRE/Platform/DevOps Tools
  • Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and Grafana
  • Experience operating CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and Jenkins
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS and Azure)
  • Infrastructure as Code expertise with tools like Terraform
  • Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the team, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
  • Define observability vision, metrics, and standards for service health
  • Govern CI/CD platforms and ensure optimal tool use
  • Partner on incident response and improve operational readiness
  • Manage platforms through Infrastructure as Code and evaluate tools based on various factors
  • Ensure compliance with audit and security standards while optimizing costs
  • Translate technical data into business value and engage with cross-functional teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits for medical, dental, and vision care
  • 401(k) plan with company match and Employee Share Purchase Plan
  • Well-being incentives, including wellness platforms and apps
  • Short-and-long-term disability and life insurance coverage
  • Family care leaves and benefits for adoption and surrogacy
  • Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care
  • Paid volunteer days for Employee Resource Group participation
Full Job Description
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


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.

About Relx Group

RELX Group is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The company operates in four market segments: scientific, technical and medical; risk and business analytics; legal; and exhibitions. RELX's products and services include electronic databases, online information services, workflow tools, and print and digital books. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in London, England.
Learn more about Relx Group
Size
33,500 employees
Market Cap
$53.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.2 billion
Founded
2018
5 Year Trend
+1%
Revenue
$7.1 billion
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Relx Group

More Information Technology Jobs

Find similar Observability & DevOps Tools Engineering Manager*** Hybrid in Raleigh, NC jobs: