Specialist, DevOps & SRE

Improve observability using Azure performance monitoring, cert expiration tracking, and operational visibility

Advance security and operational tooling (monitoring, endpoint protection, key management, and remediation)

Reduce technical debt across infrastructure (e.g., end-of-life servers, unused VMs, legacy networking resources)

Support static content and deployment improvements (blob storage, CDN/SWA patterns, front-end asset publishing)

Navigate requirements from the Pearson organization (centralized logging, vulnerability scanning, VPN access, partner integrations) while keeping GEDTS moving

3+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in production environments

Strong Microsoft Azure skills: AKS, networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway or similar ingress patterns

Hands-on experience with SQL Server in Azure (Managed Instance or equivalent): backups, monitoring, performance, and operational troubleshooting

Terraform experience with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state

Kubernetes operations: troubleshooting workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades, and persistent storage

CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps preferred, or equivalent with readiness to adopt it)

Comfort being reachable via Slack outside business hours when production needs attention; coverage is shared with the development team and existing contractor

Ability to collaborate closely with a senior contractor: communicative, curious, and willing to learn the existing system before changing it

Minneapolis-area or able to be in the office regularly at the start of the role

Experience designing analytics data boundaries (reporting replicas, ETL patterns, or network-isolated access to production data)

Tableau deployment or migration experience

Security operations familiarity (Sentinel, EDR, cert lifecycle management)

Exposure to FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar compliance programs

Familiarity with Spring Boot, ActiveMQ/JMS, Splunk, New Relic, or Azure Firewall\

This is not a traditional pager rotation, but you will need to be reasonably accessible via Slack outside business hours when production issues arise. Coverage is shared with the development team and the existing DevOps contractor.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.

The full-time salary range for this role is $70,000 – $119,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.

Applications will be accepted through 10th September 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

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Job: Infrastructure and Cloud Operations

Job Family: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Enterprise Learning & Skills