<p><img alt="" src="/logo/0000000233/260_PMO.JPG" style="height:300px; width:882px" /></p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:16px">Cloud Operations - Application Engineer</span></strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.</span></span></span></p> <div> </div> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>About the Job </strong></span></span><br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">This role will be responsible for delivering the next-generation Pearson Technology platform to our global development community. Pearson are making the transformation to a digital education company with a portfolio of cloud native applications and services. In order to do this, we need to have a platform suitable for these new-age applications. You will be hired as one of the best and brightest in your field who can challenge our team to think about solutions differently.</span></span></span></p> <br /> <span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">As a Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be seen as a subject matter expert in your field and be part of a global team. Your main responsibilities are to help maintain systems stability, availability, and performance levels. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the design and build of the Pearson Technology Services, these include but are not limited to:</span></span></span> <div> </div> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Scope</strong></span></span><br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">You will form part of a global team that will drive best practice in the PaaS arena, we work in a lean agile fashion with fortnightly sprints. You will be expected to collaborate with, and support other agile product development teams and operational teams whose primary responsibilities will be to support education services in production and pre-production environments.</span></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Scope could include technical lead responsibilities, regional and functional influence, collaboration on global initiatives. Expectation of 24/7 365 day on-call rotation. Some travel may be required (infrequent), you are expected to work from the Pearson office at least 3-days per week with some option to work remotely if your home is a suitable and safe working environment.</span></span></span><br /> </p> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>About You</strong></span></span></span><br /> </p> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">We’re looking for passionate engineers with a hunger to learn and adapt to new technology quickly. We demand people who are naturally curious, can self-start and share learnings and outcomes effectively with a distributed team.</span></span></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><strong>Things We Expect You to Know:</strong></span></span></span><br /> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">1+ years of extensive operations experience in Linux operating systems</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">1+years of in-depth, hands on experience of at least two major clouds (AWS, OpenStack, Azure etc…) is an added advantage.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Command of config management principles and an ability to code your desired state</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">A strong grasp of monitoring tools, approach and implementation</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Proven experience of implementing software defined networking</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Solid working experience of continuous integration practices & tools (Jenkins, Travis CI etc…)</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">An established history of working in agile teams</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">That DevOps is more than a job title or a marketing fad!</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat</span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to quickly work with debug and errors logs</span></span></span><br /> </p> </li> </ul> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></span></span><br /> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Willing to travel to USA at various times for collaboration activities.</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">24x7 Availability in case of emergencies</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Working with counterparts in other global teams</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">The position may require to be a part of an on-call rotation</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Maintaining 99.9% uptime</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster</span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><strong>Our Tools of the Trade</strong></span></span></span><br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">We work at the moment with the following tools, we understand everyone will do a bit of learning on the job, but you will need to be able to meaningfully contribute to a selection of these tools:</span></span></span></span></p> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:-5.25pt"> <table style="border-collapse:collapse; border:none"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align:top"> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Docker</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Kubernetes</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Terraform</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Vault</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Consul</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Keycloak</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Kafka</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Jenkins</span></span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:16px">Apply Here: </span></strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:16px">https://pearson.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=1700021</span></strong></p> </td> <td style="border-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align:top"> <ul dir="ltr"> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Git</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">NGINX</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Go</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Java/NodeJS</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Python</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Ruby</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">AWS</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>