AWS Cloud Systems Engineer I — Reliability & Automation

CamWebDir; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Systems Engineer I to join the TIO team. You will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems powering Elsevier's products, collaborating with engineers across the Netherlands, London, and India.

This entry-to-mid-level role focuses on cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. In this position you will monitor production systems on AWS, implement IaC, and support CI/CD pipelines while growing your skills in observability and

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in Systems Engineering/DevOps/SRE.
• AWS hands-on experience (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash; coding experience preferred.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Exposure to SLO/SLI/error budget frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve reliability, availability, and performance of production systems on AWS.
• Respond to incidents and drive root-cause analyses and postmortems.
• Build and maintain automation for deployment, monitoring, and IaC.
• Collaborate with development to improve observability (logs, metrics, traces, alerts).
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Write and maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
• Support CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment safety and velocity.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Observability

Python

Go

Bash

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Systems Engineer I to join the TIO team. You will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems powering Elsevier's products, collaborating with engineers across the Netherlands, London, and India.

This entry-to-mid-level role focuses on cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. In this position you will monitor production systems on AWS, implement IaC, and support CI/CD pipelines while growing your skills in observability and