Platform Manager

Platform Manager Location: London Do you like to help people turn their ideas into high performing solutions? Do you get satisfaction from collaborating with engineers to help improve their experience? About our Team You will be joining a collaborative team mid-way through our multi-year DevOps journey. We partner with Digital Business Solutions development teams and underpin their success through engineering and operational best practice. We deliver reliable and resilient AWS infrastructure that's expanding our automated CI/CD delivery pipelines to empower our developers. About the Role As a Platform Manager, you will provide support, stakeholder management, and leadership to a team of system engineers with multiple product teams for a flagship product. You will be working with colleagues from our global technology organisation. Working collaboratively, you’ll be delivering shared solutions for infrastructure operations across our products and services. Responsibilities · Build and support highly effective DevOps teams delivering cost-effective, scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions within a mission-critical product · Ensure teams are provided with training, feedback and resources needed to exceed individual and team performance goals consistently · Deliver innovative, evolutionary, and inclusive delivery approaches, and adopt DevOps best practices aligning with Agile principals · Line management for a Platform team of motivated and curious infrastructure engineers, including mentoring and career development · Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders to achieve business success Requirements · Demonstrate dynamic experience of cloud architectures and platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and understanding of how to scale micro-services using distributed systems · Have experience of authoring CI/CD pipelines and automation elements related to infrastructure composition, deployment orchestration and monitoring · Have excellent organization, project planning, delegation, time and change management skills managing projects of various sizes and complexity · Have solid experience in managing and leading engineers to deliver their best and promoting the psychological well-being of your team · Be able to facilitate collaborative conversations that identify the best outcomes Work in a way that works for you We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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. · Working remotely from home and at our office in a hybrid working style · Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day Working with us We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it. Working for you At 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: · Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days · Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits · Wellbeing programs · Life assurance · Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme · Long service awards · Save As You Earn share option scheme · Travel Season ticket loan · Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave · Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children · RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you · Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer · Access to extensive learning and development resources · Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work About Us 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. Join Us Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact accommodations@relx.com or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120. Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy