Elsevier

Systems Engineer I

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19 hours ago
Amsterdam, Netherlands or London, United KingdomEntry Level

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems running on AWS.
  • Respond to incidents and contribute to root cause analysis and postmortems.
  • Build and maintain automation for deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
  • Write and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational procedures.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment safety and velocity.

Requirements

  • Requires 1–3 years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar role.
  • Requires hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
  • Requires familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Requires working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Requires scripting or programming experience with one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Requires knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
  • Requires familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
  • Requires experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • Requires exposure to SLO, SLI, and error budget frameworks.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
  • Country-specific benefits and a fair, accessible hiring process.
  • If performed in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the role is subject to a collective labor agreement and has a stated base pay range of €40,400–€67,400.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSBashChefDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPuppetPythonTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Elsevier

About Elsevier

10,000+ employees

Elsevier builds scientific and medical information products and analytics platforms for researchers, clinicians, and educators. Its portfolio includes journals and databases such as The Lancet, Cell, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ClinicalKey, sold primarily via institutional subscriptions, licensing, and open-access publishing fees. Founded in 1880 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier operates as a business of RELX, serving universities, hospitals, corporations, and government research agencies worldwide.

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