Job Description

Role: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery

About UK Assessment & Qualifications

We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services.

About the Job

The position is for a Senior AWS DevOps engineer, who has experience working on large AWS data focused projects, and whose responsibility is around setting up and deploying with CICD pipelines, scripting with Python and Terraform and Jenkins, as well as hands on experience with other infrastructural services. There will be work involving data pipelines, transformation strategies, and helping to establish a more advanced data reporting platform, with a medium to longer-term view of full data warehousing.

Currently we are in the middle of a large programme to transform a legacy estate to AWS, and therefore there is a large amount of data hosted in platforms such as Oracle and SQL server that needs to be linked in with new microservices, using CDC technology, along with making this and new microservice mastered data available for both end user reporting and downstream consumption of other data platforms.

This role involves working with other members of the data team, as well as other project teams and technical contacts, hence good communications skills are essential.

About You

This would suit someone with a background in complex projects involving CICD pipeline deployments, scripting and troubleshooting, who is looking to work on fast moving projects and contribute to design decisions.

Key Skills & Experience

Solid understanding of principles of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and cloud implementation with demonstrable hands-on experience.

In depth experience on Infrastructure as a code (IAC) deployment with Terraform.

Build and deploy applications by adopting DevOps practices such as CI/CD in runtime with various tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and VSTS.

Experience in Amazon AWS Cloud Services:EC2, VPC, DMS, Route53, S3, EMR,RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM, Redshift, EventBridge, Lambda and managing security on AWS.

Good experience of Python scripting language to automate AWS Services.

Experience with advanced monitoring using tools like AWS CloudWatch, Graphite/Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix

Good knowledge of Enterprise level database solutions, such as Oracle and MS-SQL.

Desirable Skills & Experience

JIRA & Confluence

Teams and other Microsoft office apps

Trello

We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS (Amazon Web Service) training and certification as part of this role.

Diversity and Inclusion at Pearson

Pearson is delighted to be committed to the Race Charter and have pledged to ACT ON to support a more inclusive workplace for all our employees. We are confirmed by Stonewall in the Top 100 LGBTQ+ Employers in the Uk, and received 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation\'s Corporate Equality (CEI) Index for 2020, a primary driving force for LGBTQ workplace inclusion. We are on the Disability Equality Index, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, have achieved Investors in People Gold, and are a Working Mums Top Employer and Age Positive employer.

Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 9707

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