Lead SRE: Build Secure, Scalable Systems

LexisNexis South Africa Shared Services (Pty) Ltd Company; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis South Africa Shared Services (Pty) Ltd Company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate CI/CD, define SLIs/SLOs, manage incidents, and embed security into deployment pipelines, with strong observability and disaster recovery focus.

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a closely related role.
• Platform engineering background with internal tools or developer platforms.
• Hands-on DevOps experience with CI/CD, IaC, and configuration management.
• Experience with DevSecOps, security scans, and compliance automation.

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/DevSecOps practices, embedding security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide priorities.
• Own incident management including on-call leadership and blameless postmortems.
• Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce toil and improve resilience.
• Architect and implement observability solutions to speed detection and resolution.

Job description

LexisNexis South Africa Shared Services (Pty) Ltd Company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate CI/CD, define SLIs/SLOs, manage incidents, and embed security into deployment pipelines, with strong observability and disaster recovery focus.