2 months 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.
About RELX
RELX provides information-based analytics, research content, and decision tools for scientists, legal and risk professionals, insurers, and governments. Through segments including Elsevier (STM), LexisNexis (legal and risk), and RX (exhibitions), it sells subscriptions, data services, and software platforms used in 180+ countries. Headquartered in London, it is a public company listed in London and Amsterdam.