Site Reliability Engineer
LexisNexis10 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 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 is a leading innovator of private, secure, and authoritative Legal AI solutions that help legal and business professionals draft full documents with ease, make informed decisions faster, and deliver outstanding work and improved outcomes, all powered by trusted content. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, and is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.