RELX

Site Reliability Engineer

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10 days ago
Johannesburg, South Africa or Cape Town, South AfricaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Lead platform engineering initiatives such as internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
  • Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including automated security scanning, compliance checks, and secure-by-default configurations in delivery pipelines.
  • Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide engineering priorities and reliability investments.
  • Lead on-call operations, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
  • Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
  • Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort and improve system resilience.
  • Architect and implement observability solutions to accelerate issue detection and resolution.

Requirements

  • Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related role.
  • Demonstrated experience building internal tools, self-service infrastructure, or developer platforms.
  • Strong hands-on experience with delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
  • Practical experience 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 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, plus the ability to contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Wellbeing initiatives.
  • Shared parental leave.
  • Study assistance.
  • Sabbaticals.
  • Country-specific benefits and support for workplace accommodations.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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1,001-5,000 employees
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