Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud Platform Innovator

Hospitalityandoutdoor; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

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 collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate workflows, define SLIs/SLOs, own incident response, and drive disaster recovery while advancing DevOps, DevSecOps, and cloud-native observability across AWS/Azure and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Background in platform engineering, including building internal tools and self-service infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
• 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

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.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps practices

Incident management leadership

Linux system administration

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

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 collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate workflows, define SLIs/SLOs, own incident response, and drive disaster recovery while advancing DevOps, DevSecOps, and cloud-native observability across AWS/Azure and Kubernetes.