Senior Devops Engineer

Description:

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.