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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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Would you like to be part of an engineering team that develops and maintains our cloud and platform services?
Are you motivated by seeing how your work makes a difference to product delivery and customer outcomes?
About our Team
We are a growing, global team of 2000 entrepreneurial digital technologists. Collaborating in small agile teams, we have the freedom to leverage the latest technologies to build digital solutions. We create products that help scientists make breakthroughs and health professionals impact lives.
About the Role
As a DevOps Engineer, you will be an integral member of our team and part our global infrastructure group. You will be responsible for building and supporting products across our Life Sciences portfolio. You will help to improve the developer experience, enabling product teams to deliver quality software to customers easily and quickly.
Responsibilities:
• Working within our DevOps squad to ensure the reliability, scalability, performance and security of our platform and products
• Identifying improvements to common tasks and self-service modules to allow teams to move at pace across the SDLC
• Designing, building, and maintaining cost effective cloud environments for our organisation
• Collaborating with central platform teams to support the on-boarding of products to our platforms
• Seeking out and implementing efficiencies to erase toil to allow more focus more on project work and lasting improvements
• Acting as a senior escalation point for internal and external customers to provide support for production issues
Requirements:
• Have experience working in global cross-functional teams to solve problems at scale with innovative solutions
• Have experience DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) best-practices
• Have advanced skills in AWS, Linux, Puppet, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitHub
• Have experience designing highly available and secure distributed systems that scale using AWS, Linux, and Kubernetes
• Have experience in standardising and improving the deployment process using common platforms and CI/CD pipelines
• Have a solid understanding of how tools like New Relic or Grafana can help observe product performance and identify root causes
• Be part of an on-call rotation to provide support for our platform and customers
• Enjoy creating efficiency through automation and ‘Infrastructure as Code’ using modern languages like Python or Go
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
• Working remotely from home or in our office in a flexible hybrid style
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day
Working with us
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.
Working for you
At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work
About Us
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
Join Us
Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.






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