Senior SRE: Reliability, Automation & AI Platforms

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Job summary

Elsevier in the United States is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and performance across critical platforms. You will drive automation, improve observability, and partner with engineering to design resilient systems.

The role emphasizes incident response, post-mortems, and production readiness, with a focus on AI tooling deployment and secure self-service for multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Advanced Terraform: modules, providers, state management, lifecycle controls, drift detection, safe refactoring, remote state.
• AWS Operations: production multi-account/multi-region environments across ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch.
• GitHub Actions CI/CD: reusable workflows, OIDC, approval gates, runners, Terraform deployments, app deployments, migrations.
• ECS Fargate & Containers: Docker, ECR, ECS task definitions/services, IAM roles, health checks, autoscaling, ALB, deployment rollbacks.
• AWS Networking & Security: VPCs, networking, ALBs, Route53, ACM/TLS, IAM, OIDC, Secrets Manager, KMS, cloud security best practices.
• Incident Response & Observability: troubleshooting with logs, metrics, alarms, RCAs, rollback decisions, runbooks.
• Linux & Automation: Linux and Git basics with Bash/Python scripting for AWS CLI automation, CI/CD, tooling.
• AI Tooling Deployment: deploying AI services in production with monitoring, reliability, security for AI-powered features.
• Developer Enablement: support multiple teams, troubleshoot infra/app layers, document solutions, enable self-service.

Responsibilities

• Creating monitoring queries and establishing service level baselines.
• Support senior engineers during incidents.
• Contribute to post-mortems and RCAs.
• Participate in disaster recovery tests.
• Implement automation and execute code in production.
• Contribute to SRE knowledge documentation.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and reliability of AI-integrated services.
• Assist architecture and engineers in infrastructure topology drawings and deployment workflows.
• Test availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Docker

ECS

ECR

CI/CD

Networking

Observability

Incident Response

Linux

Automation

Security

AI Tooling

Developer Enablement

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Docker

ECS

ECR

Route53

VPC

CloudWatch

IAM

KMS

Secrets Manager

Job description

Elsevier in the United States is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, scalability, and performance across critical platforms. You will drive automation, improve observability, and partner with engineering to design resilient systems.

The role emphasizes incident response, post-mortems, and production readiness, with a focus on AI tooling deployment and secure self-service for multiple teams.