Senior Site Reliability Engineer Platform and DevSecOps

Blacksmith Agency Llc; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote-friendly

Learning and development

Inclusive culture

Health insurance

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to enhance operational excellence, automate workflows, and strengthen delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement while driving observability, disaster recovery

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
• Demonstrated background in platform engineering, including building internal tools, self‑service infrastructure, or developer platforms.
• Strong hands‑on experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
• Practical 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 and Docker, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• Experience with observability and security tooling, and the ability to contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.

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

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

DevSecOps

Networking

Linux administration

Incident response

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Security tooling

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape and operate reliable, secure, and scalable platforms supporting critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to enhance operational excellence, automate workflows, and strengthen delivery pipelines.

You will lead incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement while driving observability, disaster recovery