Remote Lead Civil Engineer — Global Infrastructure

Placements24; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operating excellence, automate pipelines, and reduce manual effort through automation.

The role emphasizes leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement, with a focus on SLIs, SLOs,

Qualifications

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.

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

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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