Lead Site Reliability Engineer — Platform Innovation

Set Consulting; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure platforms supporting critical services. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident management, define SLOs, and drive disaster recovery planning while building observability and self‑service tooling for developers.

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Background in platform engineering, including internal tools, self‑service infra, or developer platforms.
• Strong hands‑on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead platform engineering initiatives, including internal developer platforms and self‑service tooling.
• Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding automated security scanning and compliant configurations into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide priorities and investments.
• Own incident management, on‑call leadership, and blameless postmortems.
• Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve resilience.
• Architect observability solutions to improve visibility and accelerate detection and resolution.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Linux administration

Networking

Observability tooling

Security automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure platforms supporting critical services. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident management, define SLOs, and drive disaster recovery planning while building observability and self‑service tooling for developers.