Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

DevOps is a key position within the Technology, Infrastructure, and Operations group. The incumbent in this role will play a critical part in developing a Centre of Excellence responsible for delivering shared solutions for infrastructure operations across our estate.

To fill this role successfully, the candidate will need a strong background in cloud technologies, DevOps, and infrastructure automation, as well as a deep understanding of a broad set of modern scripting and OO programming languages. AWS skills are a must!

About the team; As a member of the DevOps team, you’ll be working with a broad swathe of contributors across Elsevier’s Technology organization, as well as several key folks in our vendors’ services and technologies teams.

Importantly, we’re looking for an evangelist, a leader, a partner, and a teammate. A person that can talk the talk and walk the walk.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring optimal construction and implementation of CI / CD pipelines.
• Building automation supporting the effective management and consumption of cloud resources. Design and author soft infrastructure assets using IaC best practices
• Collaborating effectively within agile dev squads delivering continuous improvements in customer outcomes.
• Providing effective solutions through the applied integration of infrastructure, software, and software delivery best practices
• Operating and maintaining software systems across the full breadth of the SDLC

Requirements

• Possess DevOps experience in large, multi-product environments
• Have extensive utilization of modern scripting and OO programming languages as a contributing member within an agile dev squad
• Experience authoring CI / CD pipelines, automation elements related to infrastructure composition, deployment orchestration, and monitoring
• Experience in AWS Architecture with an accreditation
• Experience using Terraform as an AWS automation technology
• Be Comfortable presenting and communicating ideas to key stakeholders and engineers alike
• Experience of cloud migration activities either Public or Private
• Experience of containers and associated orchestration technologies (Docker / EKS)
• Have hands on experience of implementing infrastructure and service based monitoring solutions

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization. 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 flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

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 :

• Health Benefits : Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits : 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing : Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
6 days ago