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Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer II at LexisNexis South Africa

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification Bachelors
  • Experience
  • Location Eastern Cape , Gauteng , KwaZulu-Natal , Western Cape
  • City Cape Town , Durban , Johannesburg , Port Elizabeth
  • Job Field ICT / Computer 

Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer II at LexisNexis South Africa

Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer II

About the Role

  • The role involves leading complex reliability and toil reduction initiatives, making data-driven decisions to define and maintain appropriate service levels that balance customer, development, and operational needs.
  • The Engineer will serve as an escalation point during major incidents and will be responsible for completing the migration of existing applications and services to Microsoft Azure, ensuring production-grade reliability, security, and CI/CD deployment through Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the definition and management of service level objectives (SLOs)
  • Demonstrate expertise in observability tools and techniques
  • Act as an escalation point during major incidents
  • Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot system and application performance issues
  • Migrate workloads to Azure, including compute (VMs, Functions), storage, and networking
  • Configure and optimize Azure Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, Service Bus, and Service Principals for secure and automated operations
  • Implement and manage resource groups, role-based access control (RBAC), and tagging for cost management and governance
  • Contribute to and maintain knowledge documentation

Requirements

  • Deep technical understanding of observability techniques across the full stack; able to clarify complex incidents and performance issues
  • Ability to create templated observability dashboards and configurations as code for easy implementation across products
  • Azure Services: VMs, Storage (Blob/File), Key Vault, Functions, Service Bus, App Services, Service Principals
  • DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts), YAML pipeline authoring, CI/CD automation
  • Infrastructure as Code: ARM Templates or Terraform (preferred)
  • Security & Governance: Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault integration, networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs)
  • Scripting: PowerShell and/or Python for automation
  • Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
  • Soft Skills: Strong documentation practices, effective communication, and the ability to mentor junior team members

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to LexisNexis South Africa on relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com to apply

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