Role Snapshot
Senior Software Engineer at Elsevier responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and software solutions for critical healthcare and education products on AWS. This role involves delivering production-ready services with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and mentoring team members.
Job Description
Are you passionate about building secure, scalable software and cloud infrastructure that supports critical services in production? Do you enjoy collaborating across teams, improving engineering practices, and helping others grow while delivering high-quality solutions? About our Team Our global team support products education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. We have a very stable product that we’ve worked to get to and strive to maintain. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality. About the Role This role focuses on delivering secure, reliable software and cloud infrastructure for services where reputation management and security are critical to business success. You will design, build, deploy, and support production-ready solutions in AWS, with monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD practices that enable predictable, repeatable releases. Working in a cross functional Agile team, you will also help shape engineering standards, mentor colleagues, and support continuous improvement. Responsibilities - Deliver software engineering services for products where reputation management and security are critical to ongoing business success - Build software that meets agreed KPIs and NFRs in production, with stability, scalability, and security in mind - Set up and maintain AWS infrastructure to deploy the developed business logic - Develop monitoring, alerting, and supporting dashboards to help teams operate services effectively - Develop and maintain a high-quality engineering pipeline so releases are predictable, repeatable, and reliable - Work effectively as part of a cross functional Agile team and support the products and services the team owns - Help maintain code quality and engineering standards across the team through collaboration and support - Mentor and guide team members, contribute to process improvements, and advocate for positive change Requirements - Experience working with a public cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Strong experience using GitHub Actions within a CI/CD pipeline - Solid Python knowledge - Experience with front-end technologies such as JavaScript and Node - Experience working with Web Application Firewall (WAF) technologies and Cloudflare features - Solid working experience with Git and SQL - Knowledge of Terraform and experience working with Linux - Familiarity with RESTful services, event-driven architectures, scripting, testing practices in CI/CD environments, and Agile DevOps ways of working 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 Pattern 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 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. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120. Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here. Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy. We are 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. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence. By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission-critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most. We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all. With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. Let’s shape progress together. Join us. elsevier.com/about/careers
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