Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer Division: Pearson Assessment Services Location: Rotherham, UK About Pearson: Our purpose at Pearson is to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. At the heart of this is a commitment to sustainable practices and meaningful, measurable outcomes. We are the world’s leading learning company. Our ability to help people learn is built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 20,000 employees around the world in 70 countries in which we operate are dedicated to doing just that: creating the digital-first, accessible and sustainable learning resources that prepare tens of millions of people each year for a lifetime of learning About Pearson Assessment Services The Pearson Assessment Services (PAS) team provides assessment services to the UK and international assessment markets, supporting government education departments with project management, operational delivery and technical solutions. We are part of Pearson School Qualifications which supports the curriculum, qualifications and assessments for students in the UK and globally, delivering exams to over 3.4 million students in over 80 countries annually and operating as a centre of excellence in qualifications and assessment. About You This would suit someone with a background in complex projects involving CI/CD pipeline deployments, IAC with Terraform, Python 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, repository Bitbucket. Experience in Amazon AWS Cloud Services: EC2, VPC, Data Migration Service, Lambda, RDS, S3, SNS, IAM, EventBridge, Step Functions and managing security on AWS. Experience in Database Services: Amazon Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB. Good experience of Python scripting language to automate AWS Services. Good knowledge of Enterprise level database solutions, such as Oracle and MS-SQL. Desirable Skills & Experience Change Data Capture understanding. Experience with large-scale data environments. Experience in creating release documentation. Microservice architecture understanding. Good to know GCP and its services: Datastream, BigQuery, CloudSQL JIRA – Kanban Boards, agile methodology. Job Location and Hours The role is aligned to our Rotherham office in the UK, working a 37.5 hour week. All our roles are hybrid working; our current policy requires our team to visit their base office no more than once a week, and with the possibility of occasional business travel to other Pearson sites. Candidates must be a suitable commute from their base office as our office presence policy may change to require more frequent presence in 2024.