Senior SRE: Secure, Scalable Platforms (Flexible Hours)

LexisNexis; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and improve reliable platforms that power critical products and services. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate, secure, and scale our environments.

The role emphasizes incident leadership, disaster recovery planning, and implementation of observability to accelerate detection and resolution across cloud and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a 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

DevSecOps

Cloud Platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and improve reliable platforms that power critical products and services. You will partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to automate, secure, and scale our environments.

The role emphasizes incident leadership, disaster recovery planning, and implementation of observability to accelerate detection and resolution across cloud and hybrid environments.