DevOps Engineer

Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Description

About Technology

Our Technology team provides the essential digital infrastructure that underpins Pearson’s global portfolio of products and platforms. We have open and collaborative teams in place working to build efficient global platforms and scaling digital products to reach hundreds of millions of learners around the world, while delivering elastic, secure, data-driven services.

The Technology team also drives and coordinates how we work with technology partners to establish Pearson as a destination for innovation in education. Our aim is to ensure that our customers have access to more products and learning solutions in more regions while continually offering a high-quality user experience.

About the Job

This position will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining an operating model to enable the migration of existing technology solutions and deployment of new services to a cloud computing platform.

This includes but is not limited to automating and streamlining processes, implementing and maintaining deployment tools and monitoring operational availability.

The position will also help troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test and production environments, act as an escalation point for application support and work collaboratively with software engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems.

Scope could include technical lead responsibilities, regional and functional influence and collaboration on global initiatives.

Expectation to support 24/7/365 on-call operations. The job role is based in the Hellaby UK office but you may also be required to work from other Pearson UK offices and travel to other locations where needed.

Qualifications

Things We Expect You to Know:

• Extensive knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Strong hands-on experience of cloud-related technologies, specifically AWS but will consider other providers (Google, Azure etc...).
• Configuration tooling experience, using automated deployment tools to build infrastructure and deploy applications.
• A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management.
• A strong grasp of monitoring tools, approach and implementation.
• Experience in containerisation & serverless applications.
• Solid working experience of continuous integration practices & tools (Jenkins, Travis CI etc...).
• Understanding Production Infrastructure environments, including the underlying technologies.
• Understanding of SDLC in Agile environments.
• An established history of working with agile teams.
• Expertise in deployment, troubleshooting, design, architecture and technical areas for application solutions.
• Design and implementation of fault tolerant and secure infrastructure, inline with best practices.
• Security & deployment processes to deliver effective IT security & compliance.
• How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers.
• Deployments to a cloud environment
• Experience with mentoring and knowledge transfer to BAU support teams

Required technology experience:

• AWS certification.
• Powershell & Chef scripting.
• Windows & Linux experience.
• T-SQL scripting.
• Firewall, Network & Load-Balancing knowledge.
• Source control.
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Cloud Compute Accounting
• Release Management Tools
• System metrics gathering for improvements
• CI/CD components and process design
• Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects.
• Understanding and experience of leading / managing technology products.
• Experience of working with failure based testing, for example Simian Army.
• Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity.
• Experience working in a test-driven development environment.
• Supporting Jenkins.
• Experience working with Docker.
• Terraform scripting.

Primary Location: GB-GB-Rotherham

Work Locations: GB-Rotherham-Hellaby Fretwell Hellaby Bus Park, Unit 6 Fretwell Road Rotherham S66 8HN

Job: Engineering

Organization: Technology & Operations

Employee Status: Regular Employee

Job Type: Standard

Shift: Day Job

Job Posting: May 28, 2019

Job Unposting: Ongoing

Schedule: Full-time Regular

Req ID: 1900947

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.