Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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

Job description

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.