Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Flexible Hours & Impact

Blacksmith Agency Llc; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate reliable, secure platforms that power critical products and services. You will partner across engineering, security and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident response, define SLOs/SLIs, and implement observability and disaster recovery strategies while driving DevSecOps and secure-by-default configurations across

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering / Platform DevOps.
• Experience building internal tools or developer platforms.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
• Experience with DevSecOps and security in deployments.
• Strong networking, distributed systems, and Linux administration.
• Experience leading incident response and postmortems.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Exposure to observability and security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead platform engineering initiatives, including internal developer platforms and self-service tooling.
• Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding automated security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs and budget for reliability investments.
• Own incident management, on-call leadership, and postmortems.
• Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce toil and improve resilience.
• Architect observability solutions to improve visibility and detection.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Incident response

Observability

Networking

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD tools

Security tooling

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate reliable, secure platforms that power critical products and services. You will partner across engineering, security and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident response, define SLOs/SLIs, and implement observability and disaster recovery strategies while driving DevSecOps and secure-by-default configurations across