<p><img alt="" src="/logo/0000000233/260_PMO.JPG" style="height:300px; width:882px" /><br /> <br /> <br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"> Cloud Operations - Technical Specialist </span></span></strong></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><br /> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>About You</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">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></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:14px">Things We Expect You to Know:</span></strong></span></span><br /> </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">3+ years of extensive operations experience in Linux operating systems</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">2+years of in-depth, hands on experience of at least two major clouds (AWS, OpenStack, Azure etc…)</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Command of config management principles and an ability to code your desired state</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">A strong grasp of monitoring tools, approach and implementation</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Recognition of the role security plays in PaaS and Continuous Delivery</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Able to show examples of previous work with containerised services</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Proven experience of implementing software defined networking</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Solid working experience of continuous integration practices & tools (Jenkins, Travis CI etc…)</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">An established history of working in agile teams</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">That DevOps is more than a job title or a marketing fad!</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat</span></span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif">Ability to quickly work with debug and errors logs</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Our Tools of the Trade</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">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></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">Docker</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">Kubernetes</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">Terraform</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">Vault</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">Consul</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">Keycloak</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">Kafka</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">Jenkins</span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> </td> <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">Git</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">NGINX</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">Go</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">Java/NodeJS</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">Python</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">Ruby</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">AWS</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">Hubot/CoffeeScript</span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Desirable Skills</strong></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">Experience building roadmaps and capturing user requirements to populate backlog</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">Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects</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">Leading service delivery in a mission critical production application environment</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">Understanding of leading/managing technology products</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">Experience of working with failure based testing, for example Simian Army</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">Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity</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">The ability and desire to automate routine, mundane and non-value added tasks</span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Personal Skills</strong></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">Proven solution leadership skills, with an ability to lead and facilitate solutioning initiatives</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">Previous experience contributing to war rooms and blameless postmortems</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">Superb communication skills, written and verbal</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">Experience of working in a true DevOps environment with daily collaborations</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">Show accountability and end to end ownership and provide and example to others</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">English as a business language</span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong>Challenges</strong></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">Willing 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