IT & Software

Senior Systems Engineer II

Elsevier

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

As a Senior Systems Engineer II, you design, operate, and continuously improve cloud-based enterprise environments to ensure reliability, security, and performance. You work in a DevOps-focused setting, driving automation and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver robust infrastructure. The role emphasizes incident management, capacity planning, and scalable AWS-based solutions. You contribute to ongoing improvement and secure, compliant operations, enabling critical business applications.

Pay / Benefits
  • Comprehensive Pension Plan
  • Generous vacation entitlement and sabbatical option
  • Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (global)
  • Internal communities and networks
  • Various employee discounts
Responsibilities
  • Diagnose and resolve complex system and performance issues in cloud environments
  • Monitor system health and proactively address risks to stability, performance, and security
  • Design and implement system configurations, improvements, and automation
  • Support and execute change management processes, including impact assessment
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and operational scripts
  • Collaborate with development, support teams, and vendors to deliver reliable solutions
  • Review and guide work from less-experienced engineers
  • Contribute to improving system monitoring, alerting, and reporting
  • Ensure system recovery readiness and effectively handle incident resolution
  • Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure scalability in AWS
  • Apply security best practices and ensure compliance with internal standards
  • Maintain clear documentation for systems, processes, and procedures
Key requirements
  • Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, networking, IAM, EKS)
  • Solid knowledge of Linux/UNIX systems
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python)
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Knowledge of system monitoring and performance tuning tools (e.g., CloudWatch, NewRelic)
  • Experience with incident, problem, and change management processes
  • Understanding of security best practices (IAM, patching, vulnerability management)
  • Knowledge of system recovery and disaster recovery strategies
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • proactive communication
  • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, EKS)
  • Linux/UNIX
  • Terraform

Reference: WJ-747_31231179 · Posted 06 Nov 2026, 02:17 AM

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