Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Elsevier is a mission-driven global organization seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their dynamic team. The role involves combining software thinking and service operations to manage large-scale, distributed systems while ensuring reliability and facilitating feature updates.

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

Requirements:

• 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 NewRelic
• Knowledge of security best practices, network policies, and enterprise-grade RBAC policies