Would you like to be part of a team that delivers high-quality software to our customers?
Are you a highly visible champion with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others?
About the Role:
Seeking a Senior system engineer with proven industry success to provide leadership for several cloud migration project initiatives. This position and its contributions are highly visible across all internal stakeholder groups and the role works closely with various business verticals and their project teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations and Customer Operations teams.
About the Team
You will be working with a Diversified Team with a fast paced and multi-tasking mindset. Always focused to automate something which is routine or time consuming. As a Team we are responsible for proactively building and implementing services to make IT and developers better at their jobs
Responsibilities:
• Ensuring application migrations from on-prem data centres to AWS or AWS to AWS are successful
• Consulting and providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data
• Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions
• Evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations
• Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Performing knowledge transfer for SRE, Application and Support team resources when needed
• Diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues
• Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency
• Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported
• Monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met
• Understanding and implementing defensive, detective and corrective controls
• Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices
• Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
Requirements:
• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from On-prem to Cloud or Cloud to Cloud
• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
• Familiarity with current AWS solutions; Azure and GCP experience also considered
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)
• Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)
• Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)
• Serverless solutions (e.g. AWS Lambda)
• Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., NewRelic, Grafana, CloudWatch Monitoring, Log Analytics)
• Network Security (e.g. Active Directory/RBAC, NACLs, SG rules, VPC endpoints)
Other Desirable Professional Experience and Skills:
• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge
• Ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices
• Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management
• Multi-component system integration and troubleshooting
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Secrets management (Prefer Secrets Manager)
• Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python)
• Other products in use: Jira, Confluence, MySQL Workbench
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 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:
About the Business
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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