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 

Shell scripting (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