DevOps Engineer

Elsevier; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information and analytics leader is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their infrastructure group. This role involves building and supporting products while ensuring platform reliability and performance. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging skills in AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to drive efficiency and improvements within the organization. Join a culture prioritizing innovation, flexibility, and employee well-being in the heart of Greater London.

Benefits

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Home, office, or commuting allowance

Generous vacation entitlement

Flexible working hours

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Experience working in global cross‑functional teams to solve problems.
• Experience with DevOps and SRE best practices.
• Skills in designing high-availability distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and security of platform.
• Identify improvements to tasks and self-service modules.
• Design and maintain cost-effective cloud environments.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Puppet

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Python

Go

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Would you like to be part of an engineering team that develops and maintains our cloud and platform services?

Are you motivated by seeing how your work makes a difference to product delivery and customer outcomes?

Aboutthe team:

We are a growing, global team of 2000 entrepreneurial digital technologists. Collaborating in small agile teams, we have the freedom to leverage the latest technologies to build digital solutions. We create products that help scientists make breakthroughs and health professionals impact lives.

Aboutthe role:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be an integral member of our team and part of our global infrastructure group. You will be responsible for building and supporting products across our Life Sciences portfolio. You will help to improve the developer experience, enabling product teams to deliver quality software to customers easily and quickly.

Key responsibilities:

• Working within our DevOps squad to ensure the reliability, scalability, performance and security of our platform and products
• Identifying improvements to common tasks and self-service modules to allow teams to move at pace across the SDLC
• Designing, building, and maintaining cost‑effective cloud environments for our organisation
• Collaborating with central platform teams to support the onboarding of products to our platforms
• Seeking out and implementing efficiencies to eliminate toil to allow more focus on project work and lasting improvements
• Acting as a senior escalation point for internal and external customers to provide support for production issues

Requirements:

• Have experience working in global cross‑functional teams to solve problems at scale with innovative solutions
• Have experience with DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) best‑practices• Have advanced skills in AWS, Linux, Puppet, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitHub
• Have experience designing highly available and secure distributed systems that scale using AWS, Linux, and Kubernetes
• Have experience in standardising and improving the deployment process using common platforms and CI/CD pipelines
• Have a solid understanding of how tools like New Relic or Grafana can help observe product performance and identify root causes
• Be part of an on‑call rotation to provide support for our platform and customers.
• Enjoy creating efficiency through automation and ‘Infrastructure as Code’ using modern languages like Python or Go.

Whyjoinus?

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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:

• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office, or commuting allowance.
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)

Aboutthe business –

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education, and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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