RELX
RELX
RELX develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers worldwide. Its products combine specialized content, data, and technology to support better decisions and stronger outcomes across Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions. RELX also operates across consulting, healthcare, and insurance-related markets, helping organizations improve productivity, manage risk, advance research, support legal work, and conduct more effective business transactions.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS | Philadelphia Onsite

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for improving AWS platform reliability, observability, automation, and recovery across Elsevier’s scientific and medical information services. The role also supports secure AI-enabled systems and engineering teams.

Description

  • Maintain the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms and services
  • Lead complex reliability programs and automate processes to reduce operational toil
  • Apply observability, incident response, and distributed-systems expertise to diagnose and resolve reliability issues
  • Design and deliver improvements to service availability, operational efficiency, and system recovery
  • Maintain rigorous code-quality standards and identify risks or blockers early
  • Partner with host-function stakeholders to align solutions with real operational workflows
  • Enable effective handover and build internal capability so solutions remain owned and operable
  • Develop monitoring queries and define service-level baselines
  • Assist senior engineers during incident response
  • Contribute to post-incident reviews and root-cause analyses
  • Participate in disaster-recovery testing
  • Build automation and run code in production environments
  • Add to SRE knowledge documentation and operational guidance
  • Support the deployment, monitoring, and reliability of services that integrate AI tools
  • Maintain infrastructure topology diagrams and deployment workflows
  • Validate service availability, reliability, and recoverability in non-production environments

Requirements

  • Demonstrated advanced Terraform capability, including modules, providers, state management, lifecycle controls, drift detection, safe refactoring, remote state, locking, and cross-stack dependencies
  • Hands-on experience operating production AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions
  • Practical experience with ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ECR, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Secrets Manager, KMS, and CloudWatch
  • Experience creating and troubleshooting reusable GitHub Actions workflows covering OIDC authentication, approval gates, runners, Terraform and application deployments, and migration pipelines
  • Working knowledge of Docker, ECR, ECS task definitions and services, IAM roles, health checks, autoscaling, ALB integration, and deployment rollback procedures
  • Proficiency in AWS networking and security, including VPCs, ALBs, Route 53, ACM/TLS, IAM, OIDC, Secrets Manager, KMS, and cloud-security best practices
  • Incident-response and observability experience using logs, metrics, alarms, deployment history, root-cause analysis, rollback decisions, and operational runbooks
  • Strong Linux and Git fundamentals
  • Ability to write Bash and Python scripts for AWS CLI automation, CI/CD, and operational tooling
  • Hands-on experience integrating and running AI services and APIs in production with appropriate monitoring, reliability, and security controls
  • Ability to support multiple engineering teams, troubleshoot across infrastructure and application layers, document solutions, and enable secure self-service practices

Benefits

  • Eligibility for an annual incentive bonus
  • Benefits tailored to the relevant country
  • Support for reasonable accommodations and adjustments throughout the hiring process

Related Jobs

SPERTON - Where Great People Meet

Smart Home Automation Business Development Executive

SPERTON - Where Great People Meet
51 – 200 Employees

Drive sales of Smartwitz Marketing Solutions’ smart home automation products in Navi Mumbai. Manage client relationships, demonstrations, proposals, and opportunities through installation.

Open