Senior SRE: Automation & Reliability Champion

RXinsider LTD.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for our critical platforms and services in the United States. You will drive automation, improve observability, and reduce operational toil while ensuring high availability and performance of AI-enabled applications.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient systems, participate in incident response, and build robust handover capabilities to ensure operability after squads move on.

Qualifications

• Advanced Terraform including modules, state management, drift detection and remote state handling.
• Hands-on AWS operations across multi-account, multi-region environments including ECS, RDS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS and KMS.
• Experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, OIDC auth, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with ECS Fargate, Docker, ECR, IAM roles, health checks, autoscaling and deployment rollbacks.
• Proficiency in AWS Networking & Security: VPCs, ALBs, Route53, TLS, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, cloud security best practices.
• Strong Linux skills and scripting (Bash/Python) for automation and tooling.
• Experience integrating AI services in production with monitoring and security considerations.
• Ability to support multiple teams, document solutions, and enable self-service across infra and apps.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish service level baselines.
• Support senior engineers during incidents and post-mortems/RCA analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery tests and reliability improvements.
• Implement automation and execute code in production environments.
• Document SRE knowledge and runbooks for operations handover.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and reliability of AI-enabled services.
• Assist in creating infrastructure topology drawings and deployment workflows.
• Test availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Incident Response

Python Bash

AI Tooling

Tools

GitHub Actions

ECS Fargate

Docker

ECR

VPC

Route53

CloudWatch

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for our critical platforms and services in the United States. You will drive automation, improve observability, and reduce operational toil while ensuring high availability and performance of AI-enabled applications.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient systems, participate in incident response, and build robust handover capabilities to ensure operability after squads move on.