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We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and supports a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.\nAbout the Role:\nWe are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure that enables multiple product engineering teams to deliver software reliably. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions, ECS Fargate, and infrastructure automation, along with a practical operational mindset. You will partner closely with software engineers, troubleshoot production issues, improve developer experience, and continuously modernize our cloud platform while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and operational excellence.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform following modular, reusable, and scalable practices.\n\nOperate and support production AWS environments across multiple accounts and regions.\n\nDevelop, maintain, and troubleshoot GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines supporting application and infrastructure deployments.\n\nBuild and manage containerized workloads on Amazon ECS Fargate.\n\nAdminister and support Amazon RDS PostgreSQL environments, ensuring availability, performance, backup, and recovery readiness.\n\nDesign and maintain secure AWS networking and IAM architectures.\n\nRespond to production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.\n\nBuild automation using Bash, 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With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.\nWorking 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.\nWorking for you: -\nAt Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:\nGroup Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)\n\nGroup Life insurance/accident policy\n\nGenerous long-service awards\n\nNew Baby gift\n\nSubsidized food provided (applies to India- Chennai)\n\nCasual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave\n\nFree Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)\n\nAbout Us: -\nA 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. 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