<p><img alt="" src="/logo/0000000233/260_PMO.JPG" style="height:300px; width:882px" /></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:16px">Associate Application Engineer </span></span></span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="background-color:transparent">The Application Engineering team works closely with Development teams, technology operations teams, project management, QA and business users to ensure that Pearson applications meet business objectives and services quality/performance targets. Team is mainly involve in managing application layer and the Mode 1 cloud environments. One of the major responsibility of the Applications Engineering team is to build the Continuous delivery pipeline to facilitate the continuous integration and the deployments (CI & CD).</span></span></span></p> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"> </div> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="background-color:transparent">Application Engineering team is strategically placed in ITIL Tier 3 escalation layer to ensure the production stability. Apart from that Team is responsible for Non functional requirements in Software delivery life cycle.. Also team is operating in a 24*5 on-desk and weekend on-call rota to cater the request of development teams and manage the applications globally while involving in major incidents.</span></span></span></p> <div> </div> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Core Skills:</span></strong></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify"> </p> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· 4 year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor of Science preferred and at least 1 years of professional work experience.</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· English as a business language</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Scripting ability (Bash / Shell, Python, PERL, Ruby, etc.)</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">. Sound knowledge on Linux and Windows Operating Systems.</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">. Good understanding on networking, security and load-balancers (F5, HAProxy, webproxy)</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">. Experience on relational and NoSQL Databases.</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">. Experience on Middleware(Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache etc) and Message Queues </span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Appreciation of commercial and open source tools and appropriate usage models</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Problem solving skills, willingness to learn new technologies</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· An appreciation of the need to consider aspects beyond the technical delivery of the service such as design/architecture, expectation management, relationship building and the support wrapper.</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· An individual who seeks to gain an understanding of an entire system, who understands that the system can be constantly improved by identifying the bottlenecks and improving the feedback loops so that the correct actions can be taken. </span></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Nice to Have Skills:</span></span></strong></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Object oriented, pattern based enterprise development experience.</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Understanding of DevOps and measurements of maturity</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Delivery focused with the ability to interact directly with internal customers as a service provider</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Experience of using Service Now or similar incident and change tracking tools</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Ability to work with product managers, business partners and stakeholders to understand and help build short term and long term team goals and objectives</span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">· Core and demonstrable experience in leveraging and supporting:</span></span></div> <ul style="margin-left:40px"> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">CI/Infra Automation (ie: Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Cloud/Remote computing services (ie: AWS, VMWare, Rackspace, Azure)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Monitoring (ie: Zabbix, Gomex, AppD, NewRelic, MSS, Logstash, ELK Stack, Grafana)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Database (ie: SQL (Oracle, Postgress, SQLServer, MySQL), NoSQL(Mongo, Cassandra, RIAK))</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">SCM (ie: Git, GitHub, Stash, SVN)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Platforms, languages and runtimes (ie: JavaEE, .Net, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, OpenStack, node.js)</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Agile tools (ie: Jira, Wiki’s, Confluence Suite)</span></span></li> </ul> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Apply Here : https://pearson.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1616477</span></span></strong></div>