Senior Systems Engineer II - AWS/DevOps, Flexible Hours

Elsevier; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Plan

Vacation Allowance

Parental Leave

Employee Discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Elsevier in London is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer II to design, operate and continuously improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive reliability, security and performance, contribute to automation and DevOps practices, and guide incident resolution.

The role collaborates with development and support teams, implements IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, and uses AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and EKS to scale infrastructure while maintaining documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services EC2, S3, RDS, networking, IAM and EKS.
• Solid knowledge of Linux/UNIX systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Scripting and automation (Bash, Python).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex system and performance issues in cloud environments.
• Monitor system health and proactively address risks to stability, performance, and security.
• Design and implement system configurations, improvements, and automation.
• Support and execute change management processes, including impact assessment.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and operational scripts.
• Collaborate with development, support teams, and vendors to deliver reliable solutions.
• Review and guide work from less-experienced engineers.
• Contribute to improving system monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
• Ensure system recovery readiness and effectively handle incident resolution.
• Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure scalability in AWS.
• Apply security best practices and ensure compliance with internal standards.
• Maintain clear documentation for systems, processes, and procedures.

Skills

AWS knowledge

Linux/Unix

CI/CD

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bash

Python

CloudWatch

New Relic

IAM

EKS

Job description

Elsevier in London is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer II to design, operate and continuously improve cloud-based enterprise environments. You will drive reliability, security and performance, contribute to automation and DevOps practices, and guide incident resolution.

The role collaborates with development and support teams, implements IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, and uses AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and EKS to scale infrastructure while maintaining documentation.