Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Elsevier; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in information and analytics is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II to enhance cloud reliability and performance. The role involves managing AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, promoting automation, and ensuring high availability. Join a collaborative team focused on innovation and excellence, and help improve health outcomes through technology.

Benefits

Annual Profit Share Bonus

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Home, office or commuting allowance

Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care Leave

Internal communities and networks

Recruitment introduction reward

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SRE, DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Good understanding of cloud-native architectures and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure and streamline operational workflows.
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Automation

Python

Incident Management

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Relevant SRE/DevOps certifications

Tools

GitHub Actions

NewRelic

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

Are you enthusiastic about designing and managing cloud platforms?
Do you find satisfaction in ensuring the reliability and performance of complex systems?

About Team:

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.

Our corporate culture thrives on excellence, innovation, and a strong dedication to our customers, employees, and communities. Working here means joining a vibrant, diverse, and collaborative team where you are free to grow and contribute actively.

About Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior SRE to join our dynamic team. You will combine software thinking and service operations to enable and run Elsevier’s large-scale, 24x7, distributed and fault-tolerant systems within agreed reliability objectives, whilst enabling the fast flow of feature and service updates. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, along with strong automation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS as well as the supporting ecosystem.

• Manage and optimise cross-portfolio cloud infrastructure, leveraging AWS services and supported organisational tooling

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and management of cloud and Kubernetes resources.

• Write automation processes to streamline operational workflows, incident response, and infrastructure management.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines to facilitate deployments, testing, and validation.

• Support multi-regional critical infrastructure, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.

• Manage and support a complex cross-portfolio environment, coordinating across teams to ensure consistency and reliability.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation and best practice guides for solutions, ensuring users have clear instructions and support to effectively implement and operate their systems.

• Monitor system health, instrument system components, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to optimise applications for cloud environments.

• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices in SRE, automation, and cloud architecture.

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices for cloud-native and infrastructure management.

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• Extensive experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerised applications.

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, security, storage, and operational best practices.

• Proven expertise with AWS services and architectural principles.

• Strong knowledge of AWS security, compliance, and best practices.

• Advanced skills in writing modular, reusable IaC components.

• Strong Python scripting skills for automation, tooling, and data processing.

• Ability to develop custom solutions for monitoring, automation, and incident management.

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.

• Automating deployment pipelines, testing, and validation processes.

• Experience supporting highly available, multi-regional critical environments.

• Proven ability to manage multiple portfolios and complex landscapes.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as NewRelic.

• Knowledge of security best practices, network policies, and enterprise-grade RBAC policies.

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and incident management skills.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Good experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, Terraform Associate) are a plus.

Why Join Us?

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:

• Annual Profit Share Bonus

• Comprehensive Pension Plan

• Home, office or commuting allowance

• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave

• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care Leave

• Internal communities and networks

• Recruitment introduction reward

About 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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