Senior Software Engineer

Elsevier

London, UKonsitePosted Jun 11, 2026
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Skills

cloudflarejavascriptterraformgithubpythoncicdaws

About the role

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.

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