Senior Platform Reliability Lead

Sab; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Wellbeing initiatives

Study assistance

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in Gauteng seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate secure, scalable platforms supporting critical services. You will lead incident response, automate workflows, and drive reliability improvements across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams, focusing on observability, security, and developer experience while mentoring engineers and advancing best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in a Technical Lead/ Senior Engineer role.
• Must be resident in South Africa and legally allowed to work there.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain software architecture, standards, and practices across software and firmware.
• Own software backlog, planning, estimation, and task assignment.
• Develop production software using Python and C++ and interfaces with hardware.
• Lead machine vision development, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and drive CI/CD, testing, and release improvements.
• Collaborate with hardware, production, quality, and product teams.
• Travel to customer sites when needed.

Skills

Python

C++

Linux

CI/CD

Incident management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering / Electronic Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

Git

OpenCV

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Yocto/Buildroot

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in Gauteng seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate secure, scalable platforms supporting critical services. You will lead incident response, automate workflows, and drive reliability improvements across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams, focusing on observability, security, and developer experience while mentoring engineers and advancing best practices.