Do you have solid DevOps or System Engineering experience? And do you have a hunger to make things happen? We welcome you to apply!

Elsevier is in the midst of a transformation and technology is simultaneously at the forefront and the driving force. Our innovative technology platforms and smart content solutions operate at the cutting edge of big data, semantic web and cloud technology, enabling faster more effective critical decision-making daily across the globe.

As part of Custom Solutions within the Research Product group, our infrastructure and content operations team takes responsibility for timely delivery of a growing number of datasets into research applications such as SciVal, Pure and various Custom Solutions data science products. Besides, the team is responsible for implementation and maintenance of the infrastructure to host both the content processes and custom applications. The team is converting the infrastructure into the cloud to ensure more scalability.

The team

We are looking for candidates interested in working in an international dynamic environment where we deliver quality solutions. Are you interested to work on moving the entire infrastructure to the Amazon cloud? Please apply!

This position is based in Amsterdam. You will report to the Team Lead Technology Services.  To read more on our products, please visit: http://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence.

Your responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be designing, building and monitoring our production environments across AWS infrastructures and work closely with our product-development and big-data teams. You will ensure the continuous improvement of existing products and data-processes and build infrastructure for new product and big data processes. Automate everything; including provisioning, monitoring, data processes, and continuous delivery elements. With your contribution, platforms are scalable and autonomous, releases go live without any downtime, and platforms are secure.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • 3+ years of DevOps or System Engineer experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or an equivalent field
  • Good Knowledge of shell scripting and/or dynamic languages (Bash, Python)
  • Automation & orchestration expertise with Ansible, Puppet is a plus
  • Automated build and deployments with Git/Jenkins/etc.
  • Good knowledge of modern application servers such as Nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere
  • Good knowledge of enterprise level networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, SFTP, Proxy, Firewalls) is plus
  • Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Experience or interest working with big data frameworks like Spark is plus
  • Familiarity with setting up and maintaining LDAP
  • Experience and willing to work with Microsoft stack is plus (Windows, SQL server, SSIS, CMD)
  • Good knowledge of relational databases including its performance tuning, backup/restore scripts and processes
  • Strong communication skills and fluency in English