Site Reliability Engineer
LexisNexis2 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 internal developer platform, self-service tooling, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
- Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including automated security scanning, compliance checks, and secure-by-default CI/CD configurations.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide 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 toil and improve resilience.
- Architect and implement observability solutions to accelerate detection and resolution.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.
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 DevOps practices, CI/CD 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 AWS or Azure, Kubernetes or Docker, infrastructure-as-code tools, observability tooling, and security tooling.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Wellbeing initiatives and country-specific benefits.
- Shared parental leave.
- Study assistance.
- Sabbaticals.
- Support for workplace accommodations through the accessible hiring process.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis builds research, content, and workflow software for legal, regulatory, and business professionals, including the Lexis+ platform and AI‑assisted drafting and analytics tools. It sells subscriptions and licenses to primary law, news, and practical guidance, plus SaaS products for litigation, compliance, and practice management used by law firms, corporate legal, governments, and universities. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in New York City, it is part of RELX and serves customers in 150+ countries.