Senior Engineer
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3 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will combine software thinking and service operations to enable and run Elseviers large-scale 24x7 distributed and fault-tolerant systems within agreed reliability objectives whilst enabling the fast flow of feature and service updates. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud-native architectures along with strong automation skills.
Key Responsibilities:
Design deploy and maintain highly available scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS as well as the supporting ecosystem.
Manage and optimize cross-portfolio cloud infrastructure leveraging AWS services and supported organisational tooling
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate provisioning and management of cloud and Kubernetes resources.
Write automation processes to streamline operational workflows incident response and infrastructure management.
Implement CI/CD pipelines to facilitate deployments testing and validation.
Support multi-regional critical infrastructure ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.
Manage and support a complex cross-portfolio environment coordinating across teams to ensure consistency and reliability.
Maintain comprehensive documentation and best practice guides for solutions ensuring users have clear instructions and support to effectively implement and operate their systems.
Monitor system health instrument system components troubleshoot issues and perform root cause analysis.
Collaborate with development and operations teams to optimize applications for cloud environments.
Mentor junior team members and promote best practices in SRE automation and cloud architecture.
Stay current with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices for cloud-native and infrastructure management.
Technical Skills & Qualifications:
Extensive experience deploying managing and troubleshooting containerised applications.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture networking security storage and operational best practices.
Proven expertise with AWS services and architectural principles.
Strong knowledge of AWS security compliance and best practices.
Advanced skills in writing modular reusable IaC components.
Strong understanding Golang syntax and fundamentals.
Strong Python scripting skills for automation tooling and data processing.
Ability to develop custom solutions for monitoring automation and incident management.
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.
Automating deployment pipelines testing and validation processes.
Experience supporting highly available multi-regional critical environments.
Proven ability to manage multiple portfolios and complex landscapes.
Familiarity with monitoring tools such as NewRelic.
Knowledge of security best practices network policies and enterprise-grade RBAC policies.
Strong problem-solving troubleshooting and incident management skills.
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
5 years of experience in SRE DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles.
Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect CKA Terraform Associate) are a plus.
