Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer II

LexisNexis; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A global information provider in Cape Town is seeking an experienced engineer to lead reliability and toil reduction initiatives. You will make data-driven decisions and ensure smooth migration of applications to Azure while maintaining production-grade reliability and security. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of observability techniques, Azure services, and CI/CD processes, along with strong soft skills to mentor team members. This role offers great benefits including medical aid and retirement plans.

Benefits

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits

Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy

Study Leave

Qualifications

• Expertise in observability tools and techniques required.
• Familiarity with Azure services for migration and management is essential.
• Experience with CI/CD automation processes is needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage service level objectives.
• Act as an escalation point during major incidents.
• Migrate workloads to Azure and optimize their performance.

Skills

Deep technical understanding of observability techniques

Ability to create templated observability dashboards

Azure Services expertise

DevOps Tools experience

Infrastructure as Code knowledge

Security & Governance skills

Scripting in PowerShell and/or Python

Monitoring with Azure tools

Strong documentation practices

Effective communication

Mentoring junior team members

Job description

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long‑time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi‑model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

The role involves leading complex reliability and toil reduction initiatives, making data‑driven decisions to define and maintain appropriate service levels that balance customer, development, and operational needs. The Engineer will serve as an escalation point during major incidents and will be responsible for completing the migration of existing applications and services to Microsoft Azure, ensuring production‑grade reliability, security, and CI/CD deployment through Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Influence the definition and management of service level objectives (SLOs)
• Demonstrate expertise in observability tools and techniques
• Act as an escalation point during major incidents
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot system and application performance issues
• Migrate workloads to Azure, including compute (VMs, Functions), storage, and networking
• Configure and optimize Azure Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, Service Bus, and Service Principals for secure and automated operations
• Implement and manage resource groups, role‑based access control (RBAC), and tagging for cost management and governance
• Contribute to and maintain knowledge documentation

Requirements

• Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to clarify complex incidents and performance issues
• Ability to create templated observability dashboards and configurations as code for easy implementation across products
• Azure Services: VMs, Storage (Blob/File), Key Vault, Functions, Service Bus, App Services, Service Principals
• DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts), YAML pipeline authoring, CI/CD automation
• Infrastructure as Code: ARM Templates or Terraform (preferred)
• Security & Governance: Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault integration, networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs)
• Scripting: PowerShell and/or Python for automation
• Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
• Soft Skills: Strong documentation practices, effective communication, and the ability to mentor junior team members

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 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

Working for you

We know that your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave

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.

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