Company:
LexisNexis South Africa
Industry: Law / Legal
Deadline: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience:
Location: Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape
Province: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth
Field: ICT / Computer
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
