Elsevier is hiring a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to drive operational excellence using DORA DevOps Metrics as the North Star. This key leadership role involves building cloud infrastructure for a petabyte-scale data engineering environment, driving performance, cost, and reliability improvements, and setting an example for a collaborative team.
What You'll Do
- Deliver cloud-native solutions and patterns that are highly elastic.
- Empower stakeholders and reduce toil through self-service pipelines.
- Drive best-practices in cloud-native, security, and DRY through your team.
- Mentor your team in solving deep technical issues, advanced cloud infrastructure topics, and complex coding problems.
- Set an example of methodical, systematic task execution for your team.
- Work with project managers and stakeholders to provide status and reporting.
- Act as an ambassador to other teams, finding common ground and defining clear agreements.
- Drive projects to schedule.
- Perform code reviews with an eye toward rigor and best practice.
- Apply continuous process improving techniques across the operation.
- Automate everything.
- Ensure that everything is IAC, and that your team’s infra can be rebuilt from the ground up without relying on manual configurations or the Azure Portal.
What We're Looking For
- Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud.
- Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs.
- Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals.
- Experience with Terraform.
- Experience with GitHub Actions.
- Deep knowledge of Azure Networking including private endpoints, private DNS zones, peerings, NSG rules, route tables, and VNETs.
- Experience with Azure Function Apps.
- Knowledge of IaaS in Azure.
- Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, including RBAC, service principals, managed identities.
- Expertise in a scripting language, either PowerShell or Bash.
- Experience implementing data virtualization technologies.
- Experience managing cloud storage technologies (blob, table, file, queues, and services).
- Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge.
Nice to Have
- Performance analysis and tuning.
- Experience with Purview, Fabric, Unity Catalog highly desired.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory highly desired.
- Experience with Azure Machine Learning and Azure DataBricks.
Technical Stack
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Networking
- Azure Function Apps
- Azure IaaS
- Microsoft Entra ID
- PowerShell, Bash
- Azure Data Virtualization
- Azure Storage (blob, table, file, queues)
- Azure Purview
- Azure Fabric
- Unity Catalog
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Databricks
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of SREs.
Benefits & Compensation
- Country specific benefits.
- Annual incentive bonus eligibility.
- Fair and accessible hiring process with accommodation support.
- Compensation: Home based-Illinois $124,200 - $230,800. If performed in Chicago, IL, $130,200 - $241,800.
Work Mode
This position is local-country. Locations include Home based-Illinois and Chicago, IL.
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.
