Systems Engineer IV

Job Description

We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Systems/DevOps Engineer IV who will assist in the design of a functional and maintainable platform. You will be helping to develop our core team in our Pittsburgh office to help deliver highly available platform for software solutions while collaborating with our larger Technology team globally. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in changing the way that Elsevier products are delivered within the company and to our customers, devising and implementing a modern approach to software engineering that enables continuous delivery and releases features on-demand.

The role holder will have excellent technical and project management skills as you'll be part of the Technology Infrastructure and Operations (TIO) team supporting, designing, migrating, and implementing products globally focusing on Advanced Clinical Decision Support. In addition, the role holder will be required to be fluent in both Standard Chinese and English.

Key Tasks

• Build and maintain the right cloud infrastructure architecture, balancing performance and resilience with cost.
• Migrating from 3rd party Datacenters into AWS/Azure
• Building and maintaining a set of tools that enable developers to self-serve for most operational tasks
• Defining, and building enterprise platform tools
• Building and maintaining an auditing and reporting estate that provides all relevant information on current and historic working state of infrastructure
• Improving existing Continuous integration across multiple product pipelines
• Oversee the day to day remediation of critical issues and building processes and efficiencies to eliminate the recurrence of issue.
• Ability to deliver TIO strategy in partnership with the business platforms needs

Key Skills / Experience

• AWS deployment at scale with a high level of architectural understanding of each offering
• Terraform
• PowerShell
• Traditional Systems Administration
• General Layer 2 & 3 networking
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Excellent Linux experience at scale
• Excellent Windows Server experience at scale
• A high level of skill at writing terraform modules
• A deep understanding of coding practices and of DRY principles
• Continuous Integration systems such as Hudson/Jenkins
• Git
• CDN and internet networking
• Security and compliance understanding
• Agile experience with Scrum / Kanban• Ability to work on several work streams with excellent time management
• Excellent team player
• Able to formulate and execute solution to take into consideration the needs of multiple stakeholders
• A positive, constructive approach with an emphasis on collaboration and good execution
• Able to mentor and lead other members of the team
• Experience developing and maintaining security compliant environments focusing on HIPAA and GDPR policies and procedures.

Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.

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