Remote Paid Media Implementer: Launch & Optimization

Sagan World Llc.; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in Johannesburg, SA, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape reliable, secure platforms and lead incident response. You will collaborate with engineering and security teams to automate delivery pipelines, define reliability targets, and implement scalable infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes observability, disaster recovery, and secure-by-default configurations, with flexible working patterns in a

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

SRE experience

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Networking

Incident response

Observability

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

South Africa
Johannesburg HB South Africa
Durban_SA
Johannesburg
Durban HB South Africa
Cape Town HB South Africa
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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.

Benefits

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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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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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Purpose Statement

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.