• Bangalore
• Pearson

We are the world's learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries.

We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale.

We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

In this exciting and fast-paced role you will be responsible for design, implementation and support of the Pearson VUE cloud infrastructure in Azure.

You will work closely within the Development and Operations organizations to support the design, automation, and deployments of applications and infrastructure.

You should have technical experience in building infrastructure and applications for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery.

A key portion of your job will be to help move from a traditional infrastructure deployment model to an infrastructure as code model with automation and monitoring via DevOps.

You should have excellent communication and influencing skills and the ability to work across teams to create optimal business solutions.

**Qualifications**

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:**

Delivery of Cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives with a focus on Cloud migrations

Provide leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud including:

Design, implementation and support of infrastructure as code

Research new cloud technologies and prototype solutions that can be leveraged to decrease costs and increase performance

Assess and compare cloud native PaaS with cloud-enabled traditional infrastructure

Mentor existing staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption

Design of cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure using industry best practices

Provide code reviews of team members work.

Perform Quality Assurance (i.e.

Testing) on other team members development activities.

Participate in agile activities (daily standups, backlog refinement, iteration planning, retrospectives, etc.)

Contribute to team’s backlog by creating stories and defects as they arise

Take ownership of assigned tasking

Participate in on call rotation (approx.

once every 6 weeks)

**REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:**

4 year degree in Computer Science.

5+ years of software development experience building enterprise applications, solution design and technical architecture experience.

3+ years experience in **Azure based cloud computing** based services architecture.

2+ years **Programming experience (Java, C#, etc.)**

Strong understanding across cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, data, and applications) to deliver end to end cloud infrastructure architectures and designs

Experience automating infrastructure in a cloud environment using Terraform and Ansible

Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management

**Shellscripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.)**

Proficiency with patch orchestration or vulnerability remediation

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently

Excellent technical analysis and problem solving skills

**PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:**

Container technologies such as Docker

Build automation tools such as Packer

Building continuous integration and delivery pipelines with tools like Jenkins or Team City.

Designing outage less systems using practices such as Blue / Green or Rolling Deployments

Experience in a managed **Kubernetes** implementation (KubeSpray, EKS, KOPS)

Experience with monitoring and analytical tools (Splunk, New Relic)

Certificate Management (client certificates, server certificates, certificate authorities, etc.)

Familiarity with cloud based disaster recovery and HA system development

Infrastructure experience (firewalls, load balancer, AD, DNS, etc.)

Networking experience

Agile exposure

Capable of building informative and visually appealing Grafana Dashboard

Proficient in using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and project management and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

DevSecOps (Cloudvisory, Tigera, etc.)

DNS management

Continuous infrastructure testing

GIT based Source Control Systems

**Who we are:**

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning.

We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough.

We are the world's lifelong learning company.

For us, learning isn't just what we do.

It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify.

Employment decisionsare based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law

We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [email protected].

**Job:** TECHNOLOGY

**Organization:** Corporate Strategy&Technology

**Schedule:** FULL_TIME

**Workplace Type:** Hybrid

**Req ID:** 19217