Packaging Engineering Lead: Reliability & Optimization

Sab; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Wellbeing initiatives

Study assistance

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in Gauteng seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate secure, scalable platforms supporting critical services. You will lead incident response, automate workflows, and drive reliability improvements across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams, focusing on observability, security, and developer experience while mentoring engineers and advancing best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead/ Senior Engineer role.
• Must be resident in South Africa and legally allowed to work there.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain software architecture, standards, and practices across software and firmware.
• Own software backlog, planning, estimation, and task assignment.
• Develop production software using Python and C++ and interfaces with hardware.
• Lead machine vision development, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and drive CI/CD, testing, and release improvements.
• Collaborate with hardware, production, quality, and product teams.
• Travel to customer sites when needed.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

CI/CD

Incident management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering / Electronic Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

Git

OpenCV

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Yocto/Buildroot

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Are you passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly reliable platforms that empower innovation and support critical technology services?
Do you enjoy leading reliability initiatives, driving automation, and partnering across teams to create resilient systems and exceptional developer experiences?
About our Team
At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each and every day, the work our team does supports the development of new technologies and processes that ultimately advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations and ultimately achieve superior results. Our overall success is measured by how well we deliver these results. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.
About the Role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will help shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will work closely with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence, strengthen delivery pipelines, and reduce manual effort through automation. This role also provides technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.- Lead platform engineering initiatives, including internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.- Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding automated security scanning, compliance checks, and secure-by-default configurations into CI/CD pipelines.- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; use them to guide engineering priorities and reliability investments.- Own incident management, including on‑call leadership, incident response, and blameless postmortems.- Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience.- Architect and implement observability solutions to improve visibility and accelerate detection and resolution.
Requirements
- Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.- Demonstrated background in platform engineering, including building internal tools, self‑service infrastructure, or developer platforms.- Strong hands‑on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.- Practical experience with DevSecOps, integrating security scanning, secrets management, and compliance automation into deployment pipelines.- Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and Linux systems administration.- Experience leading incident response and driving postmortem processes.- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools.- Experience with observability and security tooling, and the ability to contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.
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 Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
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.
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 or please contact .
We are 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.
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Job Description
**Who will you be working with?**
You will work as part of the Engineering team, reporting directly to the Engineering Manager and partnering closely with software, electronic, hardware, mechanical, production, quality, field support, and product management teams.
In this role, you will act as the technical leader for a team developing collision avoidance, proximity detection, and driver monitoring solutions used in mining and heavy industrial environments. You will collaborate across disciplines to ensure software reliability, safety, performance, and successful product delivery while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.
**How will you make a difference?**
As a member of the Digital Mine Engineering team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership across the software and firmware stack supporting safety‑critical mining solutions. You will define technical direction, own architectural decisions, manage the software backlog, and contribute directly to software development activities.
The role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and maintainable software products. You will serve as the primary escalation point for complex software challenges, provide mentorship to the engineering team, and help drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and software quality standards. Your contributions will directly support products designed to improve safety, operational performance, and reliability in demanding industrial environments.
**What do we want to know about you?**
**Required Qualifications & Experience**
+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience will be considered for exceptional candidates.
+ Minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience.
+ Minimum of 2 years of experience in a Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, Senior Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.
+ Must be resident in South Africa and legally authorized to work in South Africa.
**Required Technical Skills**
+ Strong hands‑on programming experience in both Python and C++.
+ Experience developing software or firmware that interfaces directly with hardware devices, sensors, and peripherals.
+ Experience working with Linux on ARM‑based platforms, including cross‑compilation and deployment.
+ Experience debugging hardware‑software integration issues using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers.
+ Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated build processes, software quality checks, and release management workflows.
+ Strong knowledge of Git and modern software development practices.
+ Hands‑on experience with machine vision and deep learning frameworks such as OpenCV, PyTorch, TensorFlow/TensorFlow Lite, and ONNX.
+ Understanding of machine vision model lifecycle management including dataset creation, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
+ Strong system troubleshooting, problem‑solving, and root cause analysis skills.
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Experience with GitLab CI/CD.
+ Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.
+ Experience working within Agile or Scrum development environments.
+ Knowledge of edge AI deployment, model optimization, and embedded inference.
+ Experience with Yocto, Buildroot, or similar embedded Linux build systems.
+ Experience with CAN Bus, RS232/485, TCP/IP, MQTT, or related communication protocols.
+ Experience with IoT, telemetry, telematics, GPS, Bluetooth, or Wi‑Fi technologies.
+ Familiarity with functional safety standards such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262.
+ Experience within mining, heavy industrial, automotive, or other safety‑critical industries.
**What will your typical day look like?**
+ Define and maintain software architecture, technical standards, and engineering best practices across the software and firmware ecosystem.
+ Own and manage the software backlog, including work breakdown, prioritization, estimation, and task assignment.
+ Design, develop, review, and maintain production software using Python and C++.
+ Develop and support software and firmware that interfaces directly with company hardware platforms and sensors.
+ Provide technical leadership and oversight for machine vision development, model training, evaluation, and deployment activities.
+ Lead troubleshooting and root cause investigations for complex software, firmware, and hardware integration issues.
+ Drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build automation, software quality processes, and release management.
+ Conduct code reviews and promote high standards for software quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
+ Mentor software engineers through coaching, technical reviews, knowledge sharing, and professional development support.
+ Partner with cross‑functional teams including hardware, electronics, production, quality, field support, and product management.
+ Support technical recruiting efforts, including candidate assessment and interview participation.
+ Ensure software development activities align with safety, quality, traceability, and regulatory expectations for products deployed in mining and industrial environments.
+ Occasionally travel to customer and mine sites to support deployment, troubleshooting, and technical discussions.
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