Senior SRE: Build Resilient, AI‑Powered Platforms

Elsevier; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms and services. You will lead automation efforts, reduce toil, and collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient systems that deliver strong customer experiences.

You will focus on observability, incident response, and distributed systems, building solutions that improve availability, recovery, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Advanced Terraform: modules, providers, state management, drift detection, and remote state.
• Hands-on AWS operations across ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD, OIDC, and deployment pipelines.
• ECS Fargate, containers, health checks, autoscaling, ALB integration, and deployment rollbacks.
• Networking and security best practices on AWS, including TLS/ACM and IAM.

Responsibilities

• Create monitoring queries and establish service baselines.
• Support incidents and contribute to post-mortems.
• Contribute to disaster recovery tests and runbooks.
• Implement automation and production deployments for AI-integrated services.
• Document solutions and enable secure self-service for teams.
• Assist architecture in deployment workflows.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Docker

Networking

Observability

Linux

Scripting

AI Tools

Dev Enablement

Tools

ECS

Docker

ECR

CloudWatch

OIDC

KMS

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms and services. You will lead automation efforts, reduce toil, and collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient systems that deliver strong customer experiences.

You will focus on observability, incident response, and distributed systems, building solutions that improve availability, recovery, and production readiness.