Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Flexible Hours & Platform

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence, strengthen delivery pipelines, and reduce manual effort through automation.

The role provides technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS or Azure, Kubernetes and Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience leading incident response and driving postmortem processes.

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

Platform Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

DevSecOps

Linux Admin

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD Tooling

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence, strengthen delivery pipelines, and reduce manual effort through automation.

The role provides technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform