Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Platform Automation Leader

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

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in South Africa is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platforms. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to raise operational excellence and automate pipelines.

You will own incident management, define SLIs/SLOs, implement disaster recovery, and drive observability and security tooling across cloud and hybrid environments.

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

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Linux administration

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability tooling

Security tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions in South Africa is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platforms. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to raise operational excellence and automate pipelines.

You will own incident management, define SLIs/SLOs, implement disaster recovery, and drive observability and security tooling across cloud and hybrid environments.