Remote Prospecting & Pipeline Builder

Blacksmith Agency Llc; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in South Africa is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms that support critical products and services.

You will lead platform engineering, automate pipelines, drive security in deployments, and own incident response across cloud and hybrid environments to improve operational excellence and developer experiences.

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Background in platform engineering with internal tools, self-service infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on DevOps with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and config management.
• Practical DevSecOps experience integrating security scanning and compliance into deployments.
• Strong Linux, networking, and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), containers (Kubernetes/Docker), and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead platform engineering initiatives including internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.
• Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices with automated security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to guide reliability investments.
• Own incident management, on-call leadership, and blameless postmortems.
• Design and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate workflows to reduce manual toil and improve resilience.
• Develop observability solutions to improve visibility and accelerate detection/resolution.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Security integration

Networking

Linux administration

Incident response

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Monitoring/Observability tools

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

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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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.

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.

Daily Technical Activities

• Acts as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensures that required prerequisites (e.g., design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget) are in place prior to commencing work.
• Produces functional and concept technical design specifications and provides technical leadership, support, and expertise for single discipline
• Ensures that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum cost.
• Ensures that work assignments are executed to appropriate standards and quality systems (Implementation, Test and Documentation)
• Monitors and controls assigned work scope against the project plan, ensures effective change control, and identifies risks / opportunities.
• Proactively recommends potential quality and efficiency improvements within the engineering group
• Shares technical knowledge with project team, supervisor, own discipline, and other engineering disciplines
• Reports progress and technical problems to project manager with regards to relevant project work.
• Actively contributes in the pre-engineering phase of a project. As such, identifies to the customer which information is required before project starts.

Daily General Activities

• Availability for and performance of duties outside of normal working hours.
• Assist (be available as required) for after hours and emergency services requirements associated with the client base.
• Oversee update of site-specific documentation and quality assurance information.
• Accurate and timeous completion and preperation of project job administration for processing by BCS team.
• Accurate and timeous completion and submission of all required administration, Time Sheets, HSE etc.
• Multi-site responsibilities
• Travel is required to remote sites, both locally and international

Daily Health and Safety Activities

• Carry out hazard and risk management for all tasks as per company policy and procedures.
• Reporting near misses, incidents and other opportunities for improvement with respect to Health and Safety.
• Carry out hazard and risk assessments for all tasks as per site policy and procedures.
• Ability to identify and impliment safety improvements in the work place.
• Complete pre-job risk assessments
• Follow all customer and Honeywell HSE expectations
• Complete all required training and procedure reviews
• Report all injuries to management
• Report all unsafe conditions and behaviors through SOS and take appropriate corrective action
• Wear all required personal protective equipment

Customer Services

• Technical consulting, repair, service support, design and implementation support to the service business and customers. This includes pre-sales support to the sales / account management team, as well as to the Projects and Engineering Teams on project implementation
• Effectively meet customer needs, build productive customer relationships and take responsibility for customer satisfaction.
• Ensuring delivery of value to Honeywell clients and customers
• Ensuring that customer satisfaction levels are up to plan
• Ensuring customer satisfaction through direct liaison with client representatives, customers and service recipients.
• Carry out to a high standard and quality all Project and Renewal Work
• Ensure that you continually use available support tools and software to achive a high level of customer satisfaction, including but not limited to available mechanical and software tools , SMS, SAP, CPQ, VOC, Honeywell Performance Development, Safety Playbook, etc.
• Participate in customer meetings
• Ability to interact and build relationships with customers
• Management of the day-to-day operational service works associated with the client base.
• Ensure that customer agreed time lines and targets are met.
• Consistently deliver services in order to meet the performance requirements of project.

Skills required

• Strong IT and Low Current related skills
• Analytical ability
• Results Orientated
• Assertive
• Time Management
• Customer Focus
• Communication Skills
• Effective Team player

QUALIFICATIONS

• Tertiary qualified preferable (degree and/or trade, IT, Electrical or Electronic Diploma or higher) in business/facility management, or related industry.
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills.
• Fault finding and repairs to Electronic equipment.
• Experience with Honeywell control systems and EBI products including BMS, Access Control, Security, HVAC, Fire and Life Safety, CCTV and Digital Video, Asset Tracking, Energy Management and other systems that may from time to time be added to the product range.

EXPERIENCE

• Exceptional self management capability and process improvement skills
• Strong technical skills and broad exposure to technical issues
• Ability to work in a challenging environment with a mix of infrastructure, equipment and systems and a wide variety of client groups
• Project management experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission‑critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.

Remote ThermoFisher Scientific

Job Description

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**Job Description**
Join Us as Senior Site Contract Specialist- Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation
The Senior Site Contract Specialist manages the preparation, negotiation and finalization of the contracts process. Liaises and establishes effective relationships with sites and internal functional teams. Ensures quality, objectivity and risk analysis in the efficient delivery of Investigator Contracts. The role may involve mentoring junior staff.
What You'll Do:
- Draft, review, negotiate and finalize agreements with study sites in accordance with local/accepted process.
- Negotiate within approved parameters both investigator grant budget negotiation parameters, contractual terms and conditions in accordance with
- Company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations, established process with sites and follows established escalation routes.
- Ensure compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval, contractual process and client expectations.
- Ensure compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process.
- Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks in accordance with company and client contractual considerations, and elevate to appropriate level of the organization per established processes.
- Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contracts negotiations through established escalation channels.
- Coordinate with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensure alignment of contract negotiation process for sites and study are properly aligned to the critical path for site activation.
- Achieve target cycle times for site activations.
- Ensure guidelines and process are followed for efficient escalation of out of parameter issues, as applicable.
- Complete tracking and reporting as required.
- May provide training and mentoring to junior staff.
- Participate in country process improvement initiatives, representing Global Site Contract activities within country team meetings.
- Act as country subject matter expert in review of Investigator Contracts training materials.
- Liaise with Global Site Contracts to ensure full compliance with established global processes and corporate directives.
- Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports.
- May act as lead with amendment/novation client projects and oversight of confidentiality agreement negotiations.
Education & Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).
In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Detailed understanding of the principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence contract language, such as business, intellectual property and local tax and stamp laws
- Effective communication skills (verbal & written) in English and local language
- Detailed understanding and demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate investigator grant budgets within negotiation parameters
- Demonstrated skill in strong attention to detail
- Excellent analytical and decision based thinking skills
- Solid knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs
- Able to work independently or in a team environment
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Working knowledge of PPD SOP & WPDs
- Able to organize competing priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues
- Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications
- Ability to demonstrate a customer focused style of communication, problem solving and collaboration
- Detailed understanding of the principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence contract language, such as business, intellectual property and local tax and stamp laws
- Detailed understanding and demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate investigator grant budgets within negotiation parameters
- Demonstrated ability to independently train and mentor staff
- Demonstrated ability to provide valuable feedback to Investigator Analysts
- Strong problem solving skills that are demonstrated via solid risk analysis that results in resolution or escalation as appropriate
- Demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate Investigator Contracts in the best interests and position of the company and client
Working Conditions and Environment:
- Ability to work in an upright and /or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Frequent mobility required.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
Why Join Us?
When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You'll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience-and where your contributions truly make a difference.