Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Automation & Reliability Leader

RELX Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement

Family leave (Maternity/Paternity/Adop

Adoption leave

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for mission‑critical platforms. You will drive automation, improve observability, and collaborate with engineering teams to reduce toil and boost resilience.

You will design scalable, secure systems, implement robust incident response, and contribute to post‑mortems, RCAs, and disaster recovery exercises across distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps with monitoring and CI/CD.
• Experience managing AWS multi-account environments.
• Strong Linux and scripting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish service baselines.
• Support incident response and post‑mortems.
• Participate in disaster recovery tests and automation.
• Write automation scripts for incident response and rollbacks.
• Contribute to observability dashboards and runbooks.
• Support AI tool deployment with reliability focus.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

ECS/Fargate

Observability

Linux scripting

AI tooling deployment

Developer enablement

Tools

Docker

ECR

Route53

S3

VPC

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for mission‑critical platforms. You will drive automation, improve observability, and collaborate with engineering teams to reduce toil and boost resilience.

You will design scalable, secure systems, implement robust incident response, and contribute to post‑mortems, RCAs, and disaster recovery exercises across distributed environments.