Remote Sdr: Top-Of-Funnel Pipeline Builder

Blacksmith Agency Llc; Wes-Kaap; Remote; ZAR 1,997,000 - 2,995,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthy work-life balance

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate reliable, secure platforms that support critical products and services. You’ll partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate repetitive tasks, while providing technical leadership in incident management and continuous platform improvement.

You will design scalable infrastructure, lead internal tooling projects, embed security into

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related role.
• Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, configuration management.
• Experience with DevSecOps and security automation in deployment.
• Strong networking, distributed systems, and Linux administration knowledge.
• Proven incident leadership and postmortem skills.
• Experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools.
• Observability tooling experience and contribution to roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain highly available infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead platform engineering initiatives and internal developer platforms.
• Drive DevOps/DevSecOps practices and automate security checks in CI/CD.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and guide reliability investments.
• Own incident management, on-call leadership and postmortems.
• Design disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce toil and improve resilience.
• Implement observability solutions for faster issue detection and resolution.

Skills

SRE

Platform engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Security automation

Linux administration

Incident response

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

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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. (benefits description omitted due to removal of link)

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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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.

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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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.