Senior Cloud Systems Engineer II — Flexible Hours

Elsevier; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and -F"

Internal communities and networks

Employee discounts

Recruitment introduction reward

Employee Assistance Program (global)

Job summary

Elsevier seeks a Senior Systems Engineer II to design, operate, and continually improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive automation, ensure reliability, security, and performance while supporting DevOps practices and incident resolution.

You will contribute to capacity planning, implement infrastructure as code, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions in AWS.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, networking, IAM, EKS).
• Linux/UNIX expertise.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Monitoring and performance tools (CloudWatch, New Relic).
• Incidents, problems and change management knowledge.
• Security best practices (IAM, patching, vulnerability management).
• Disaster recovery knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues in cloud environments.
• Monitor system health and address risks to stability, performance, and security.
• Design and implement configurations, improvements, and automation.
• Support change management with impact assessment.
• Develop infrastructure as code and operational scripts.
• Collaborate with development, support teams and vendors.
• Review work from junior engineers and guide them.

Skills

AWS experience

Linux/UNIX

CI/CD knowledge

Infrastructure as Code

Automation & scripting

Security best practices

Incident & change management

Collaboration & teamwork

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bash

Python

CloudWatch

New Relic

EKS / Kubernetes

AWS networking

Job description

Elsevier seeks a Senior Systems Engineer II to design, operate, and continually improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive automation, ensure reliability, security, and performance while supporting DevOps practices and incident resolution.

You will contribute to capacity planning, implement infrastructure as code, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions in AWS.