Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Flexible Hours & Impact

Blacksmith Agency Llc; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence.

You will own incident management, define SLIs/SLOs, implement observability, and advance CI/CD and infrastructure‑as‑code practices across cloud and hybrid

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Experience building internal tools, self-service infrastructure, or developer platforms for platform teams.
• Hands-on DevOps experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.

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 checks in CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide priorities.
• Own incident management including on-call leadership and postmortems.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Incident management

Observability

Networking

Linux administration

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure

Security tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

IaC tools

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence.

You will own incident management, define SLIs/SLOs, implement observability, and advance CI/CD and infrastructure‑as‑code practices across cloud and hybrid