Senior DevOps Engineer
LexisNexis South Africa|Posted 11 days ago
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About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.
About The Role
As a Senior Devops Engineer, you will develop software to help evolve our global CI/CD platform. In this role, you will design reusable tools, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates that empower teams to deliver software efficiently, securely, and consistently. You will contribute to shared Jenkins libraries, Terraform/CloudFormation modules, Python packages, and GitOps workflows that support secure and observable deployments across AWS and other environments.
Responsibilities
• Designing and maintaining Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline templates that simplify complexity and support compliance.
• Building and supporting Python packages with Open Telemetry-enabled steps for builds, scans, deployments, and releases.
• Leading migration efforts from legacy pipelines to standardized deployment paths using reusable tools and clear documentation.
• Developing and maintaining Terraform and CloudFormation modules for AWS deployments (e.g., ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda, EC2).
• Integrating automated security and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Promoting observability using tools like Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Coralogix.
• Collaborating with application teams to create CI/CD flows that balance team needs with platform standards.
• Creating and maintaining documentation, onboarding guides, and best practices to support adoption.
• Providing technical guidance and support for pipeline-related issues.
• Mentoring team members and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
Requirements
• Have experience in software development using Python, Java, or .NET, with a focus on building reusable tools or APIs.
• Have hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
• Have a solid understanding of AWS services and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Be familiar with container technologies (Docker, ECR) and deployment strategies (GitOps, blue/green).
• Have knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Have an understanding of security and compliance tools (CVE scanning, Prisma Cloud, SonarQube).
• Be an effective communication and collaboration skills across diverse, global teams.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis®.
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About LexisNexis South Africa
LexisNexis South Africa is a leading provider of content and technology solutions, and part of RELX, a major publisher and information provider that serves customers in more than 175 countries with more than 30,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to advance the rule of law around the world. Publishing laws and enabling access to justice is at our core.
In November 2015 LexisNexis® South Africa established itself as a leader in conveyancing solutions in the South African legal market with its acquisition of a 100% stake in Korbitec (Pty) Ltd, a provider of content-enabled workflow solutions for South African property professionals. Korbitec’s offering includes two industry leaders, GhostConvey and Windeed.
The most important part of our business is its people, who are diverse in culture and possess unique skills that help drive our projects from one success to another.
At the core of our information technology operation is a team of software engineers, who constitute a third of our total staff complement. They carry out software research and development that keeps LexisNexis at the cutting edge of IT innovation, building the products that support our operations in South Africa as well as internationally.
Perks at LexisNexis South Africa
Tech Stack
application and data
utilities
dev ops
business tool
