Senior SRE: Platform & Automation (Flexible Hours)

Trouw Nutrition; Johannesburg; On-site; 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 reliable, secure, and scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to improve operational excellence and automate delivery pipelines.

You will provide technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement, shaping roadmaps and architecture decisions

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering or closely related role.

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

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Docker

DevSecOps

Incident Management

Observability

Security Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools

IaC tooling

Security tooling

Job description

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

You will provide technical leadership in incident management, reliability engineering, and continuous platform improvement, shaping roadmaps and architecture decisions