Remote Outbound Sdr: Targeted Outreach & Pipeline Builder

Blacksmith Agency Llc; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote-friendly

Learning and development

Inclusive culture

Health insurance

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to enhance operational excellence, automate workflows, and strengthen delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement while driving observability, disaster recovery

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

DevSecOps

Networking

Linux administration

Incident response

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Security tooling

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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 post‑mortems.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with exciting benefits.
• Flexible and remote working options so you can do your best work.
• Learning and development opportunities to advance your career.
• An inclusive culture that celebrates what makes you unique.
• Health insurance and other standard employee benefits.

Company Culture

At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by delivering better outcomes to the innovation community. Each 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.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and local laws.