Senior Systems Engineer II
Elsevier
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
- 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
- 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