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

Please apply online or send your CV to technologycareers@elsevier.com.Elsevier’s 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.

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.

The teamWe 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.

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
  • Competitive salary and a 13th month
  • 27 days of leave
  • Attractive collective health care insurance package with considerable reduction rates
  • Solid Pension Plan of which 70% of the premiums is paid by Elsevier
  • Profit share or bonus plan subject to the company annual results
  • You can participate in the convertible personnel bond scheme
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Travel allowance for commuting
  • Reductions to several personal insurance packages due to our collective agreements
  • Additional benefits, such as memberships to Elsevier’s magazines, discount on books and in-house sport facilities
  • Numerous training, coaching and e-learning modules for long term job opportunities and development
  • Several local and global networking communities to share best practices and knowledge
  • Various social responsibility programs, channeling knowledge and strengths to help communities around the world improve education, science, health care and protect the environment.