Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - AWS & Automation

RELX Group; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and 1

Family Care leave

Internal communities and networks

Various employee discounts

Recruitment introduction reward

Employee Assistance Program (global)

Job summary

Elsevier seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to design, operate and improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive reliability, security, performance and automation in a DevOps context, collaborating across teams and vendors to deliver resilient solutions.

You will shape change processes, write infrastructure as code, and contribute to monitoring, alerting, and incident response. This role supports scalable AWS architectures and robust documentation.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and Linux/UNIX environments.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code and scripting for automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and incident handling.
• Knowledge of security best practices and disaster recovery strategies.
• Ability to document systems and procedures clearly.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex cloud system issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Monitor health, implement improvements, and automate configurations.
• Lead change management activities and assess impacts.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and automation scripts.
• Collaborate with teams and vendors to deliver reliable solutions.
• Guide junior engineers and improve monitoring, alerts, and reporting.
• Assist with capacity planning and AWS scalability, ensure security.

Skills

AWS services

Linux/UNIX

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting Bash/Python

CI/CD/DevOps

Monitoring tools

Incident & Change mgmt

Security basics

Disaster recovery

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

New Relic

Job description

Elsevier seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to design, operate and improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive reliability, security, performance and automation in a DevOps context, collaborating across teams and vendors to deliver resilient solutions.

You will shape change processes, write infrastructure as code, and contribute to monitoring, alerting, and incident response. This role supports scalable AWS architectures and robust documentation.