Cloud Systems Engineer I - Flexible Hours & Reliability

Elsevier; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Wellbeing initiatives

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Systems Engineer I to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems powering Scopus. This entry-to-mid-level role offers exposure to cloud infrastructure, IaC, automation, and observability across global engineering teams.

You will work closely with software engineers and platform teams to improve deployment safety, incident response, and operational excellence, with a strong mentorship environment for early-career engineers.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in a Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar role
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Scripting/programming experience (Python, Go, Bash)
• Understanding of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and practices (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 analysis and postmortems
• Build and maintain automation for deployment, monitoring, and Infrastructure as Code
• Collaborate with development teams to improve observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting)
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Write and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational procedures
• Support CI/CD pipelines and help improve deployment safety and velocity

Skills

Observability

CI/CD

Automation

SRE Practices

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Bash

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Systems Engineer I to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems powering Scopus. This entry-to-mid-level role offers exposure to cloud infrastructure, IaC, automation, and observability across global engineering teams.

You will work closely with software engineers and platform teams to improve deployment safety, incident response, and operational excellence, with a strong mentorship environment for early-career engineers.