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We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure that enables multiple product engineering teams to deliver software reliably. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions, ECS Fargate, and infrastructure automation , along with a practical operational mindset. You will partner closely with software engineers, troubleshoot production issues, improve developer experience, and continuously modernize our cloud platform while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence.
Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for our customers across global health. We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and supports a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.
We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure that enables multiple product engineering teams to deliver software reliably. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions, ECS Fargate, and infrastructure automation , along with a practical operational mindset. You will partner closely with software engineers, troubleshoot production issues, improve developer experience, and continuously modernize our cloud platform while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence.
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Ephemeral Environment Management: Experience creating and safely tearing down PR environments, including ECS services, databases, Terraform state, DNS, and test infrastructure.
Observability: Familiarity with New Relic, CloudWatch, Opsgenie, Datadog, synthetic monitoring, golden signals, and alert tuning.
Container Security: Experience with JFrog Artifactory, Xray/Frogbot, CrowdStrike, SonarQube, dependency scanning, and vulnerability remediation.
Disaster Recovery: Knowledge of AWS Backup, cross-account recovery, RDS restore testing, S3/KMS recovery considerations, and DR exercises.
Application Stack Knowledge: Working familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, Java, .NET, Flyway, SQL migrations, Keycloak, and CI/CD pipeline troubleshooting.
Infrastructure Modernization: Experience migrating legacy Terraform configurations, consolidating infrastructure, and coordinating cross-repository changes.
Reliability & Capacity Management: Experience with ECS/RDS sizing, autoscaling, performance optimization, monitoring hygiene, and AWS cost optimization.
Documentation & Change Management: Ability to review Terraform plans, assess deployment risks, define rollback procedures, and maintain operational documentation.
Healthcare Domain: Knowledge of FHIR, SMART on FHIR, clinical data services, or healthcare security standards.
Identity & Access Management: Experience with Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC integrations.
Terraform Integrations: Familiarity with New Relic and Opsgenie Terraform providers.
Security & Compliance: Experience with CloudTrail data events, compliance audits, and centralized logging.
Cloud Migration: Experience with regional migrations, DNS consolidation, and certificate management.
Kubernetes: Exposure to Kubernetes is a plus; primary runtime is ECS Fargate.
Enterprise Environments: Experience working within enterprise SSO, networking, CI/CD runners, artifact repositories, and change-management processes.
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and 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.
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:
Group Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)
Group Life insurance/accident policy
Generous long-service awards
New Baby gift
Subsidized food provided (applies to India- Chennai)
Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave
Free Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)
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
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