Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Are you an innovative Sr SRE looking to work for a mission driven global organization?

About the role, We are looking to immediately hire 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 architectures, along with strong automation skills.

About team; This diverse team of Engineers in assisting multiple product teams as we continue to innovate all of our products within our global Cloud AWS landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available, scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS as well as the supporting ecosystem.
• Managing and optimizing cross-portfolio cloud infrastructure, leveraging AWS services and supported organizational tooling
• Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and management of cloud and Kubernetes resources.
• Writing automation processes to streamline operational workflows, incident response, and infrastructure management.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines to facilitate deployments, testing, and validation.
• Supporting multi-regional critical infrastructure, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.
• Monitoring system health, instrument system components, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis.
• Managing and supporting a complex cross-portfolio environment, coordinating across teams to ensure consistency and reliability.
• Maintaining comprehensive documentation and best practice guides for solutions, ensuring users have clear instructions and support to effectively implement and operate their systems.
• Mentoring junior team members and promoting best practices in SRE, automation, and cloud architecture.
• 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.
• Extensive 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.
• Current experience Automating deployment pipelines, testing, and validation processes.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as New
• Relic.
• Knowledge of security best practices, network policies, and enterprise-grade RBAC policies.
• Elsevier employs 10,000 people worldwide, including over 2,500 technologists.
• We have supported the work of our research and health partners for more than 140 years.
• Growing from our roots in publishing, we offer knowledge and valuable analytics that help our users make breakthroughs and drive societal progress.
• Digital solutions such as Science
• Direct, Scopus, Sci
• Val, Clinical
• Key and Sherpath support strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, medical education, and nursing education.
• Researchers and healthcare professionals rely on over 2,800 journals, including The Lancet and Cell; 46,000+ eBook titles; and iconic reference works, such as Gray's Anatomy.