Are you passionate about building scalable cloud infrastructure and improving enterprise platforms through automation and engineering best practices?
Do you enjoy collaborating across teams to solve technical challenges, enhance reliability, and contribute to modern cloud environments that make a meaningful impact?
About our Team
The Mendeley Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving the cloud infrastructure that powers Mendeley, a platform serving millions of researchers and healthcare professionals globally. We manage AWS-based environments that support critical research workflows and drive innovation in scholarly research.
Our team values engineering excellence, collaboration, and automation. We're passionate about Infrastructure as Code, modern cloud architecture, and building reliable, secure, and scalable systems. You'll work with experienced engineers who are committed to operational excellence and continuous improvement, while having the autonomy to own moderately complex infrastructure initiatives.
About the Role
As a Systems Engineer, you will contribute to the design, operation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based enterprise environments. Working independently on moderately complex initiatives, you will help build reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure while supporting operational excellence across multiple environments.
This role offers the opportunity to work with cloud technologies, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices, while collaborating closely with development, support, and platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions within established architectural guidelines
Respond to and assist in diagnosing system management alerts and operational exceptions, escalating where appropriate
Apply and advocate infrastructure best practices within the team
Contribute to scripts, automation, and Infrastructure as Code development
Participate in change management processes, ensuring changes are properly documented, tested, and executed
Collaborate closely with development, support, and platform teams
Assist in daily support of assigned systems and products through proactive monitoring and early detection of issues
Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain cloud infrastructure components across multiple environments
Requirements
Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
Linux administration and scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar technologies
Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Familiarity with system monitoring tools such as New Relic or similar
Knowledge of change and incident management processes
Good oral and written communication skills
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. 1
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Skills Required
- Experience with cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
- Linux administration and scripting skills using Bash, Python, or similar technologies
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with system monitoring tools such as New Relic or similar
- Knowledge of change and incident management processes
- Good oral and written communication skills
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
