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All eligible candidates are invited to apply for the vacancy of Associate Cloud Operations Engineer at Pearson.
Qualifications
Things We Expect You to Know:
- 3 years of extensive operations experience in Linux operating systems
- 2 years of in-depth, hands on experience of at least two major clouds (AWS, OpenStack, Azure etc…)
- Command of config management principles and an ability to code your desired state
- A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management
- A strong grasp of monitoring tools, approach and implementation
- Recognition of the role security plays in PaaS and Continuous Delivery
- Able to show examples of previous work with containerised services
- Proven experience of implementing software defined networking
- Solid working experience of continuous integration practices & tools (Jenkins, Travis CI etc…)
- An established history of working in agile teams
- That DevOps is more than a job title or a marketing fad!
- How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat
- Ability to quickly work with debug and errors logs
Our Tools of the Trade
We Work At The Moment With The Following Tools, We Understand Everyone Will Do a Bit Of Learning On The Job, But You Will Need To Be Able To Meaningfully Contribute To a Selection Of These Tools
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Vault
- Consul
- Keycloak
- Kafka
- Jenkins
- Git
- NGINX
- Go
- Java/NodeJS
- Python
- Ruby
- AWS
- Hubot/CoffeeScript
Desirable Skills
- Experience building roadmaps and capturing user requirements to populate backlog
- Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects
- Leading service delivery in a mission critical production application environment
- Understanding of leading/managing technology products
- Experience of working with failure based testing, for example Simian Army
- Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity
- The ability and desire to automate routine, mundane and non-value added tasks
Personal Skills
- Proven solution leadership skills, with an ability to lead and facilitate solutioning initiatives
- Previous experience contributing to war rooms and blameless postmortems
- Superb communication skills, written and verbal
- Experience of working in a true DevOps environment with daily collaborations
- Show accountability and end to end ownership and provide an example to others
- English as a business language
Qualifications
Things We Expect You to Know:
- 3 years of extensive operations experience in Linux operating systems
- 2 years of in-depth, hands on experience of at least two major clouds (AWS, OpenStack, Azure etc…)
- Command of config management principles and an ability to code your desired state
- A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management
- A strong grasp of monitoring tools, approach and implementation
- Recognition of the role security plays in PaaS and Continuous Delivery
- Able to show examples of previous work with containerised services
- Proven experience of implementing software defined networking
- Solid working experience of continuous integration practices & tools (Jenkins, Travis CI etc…)
- An established history of working in agile teams
- That DevOps is more than a job title or a marketing fad!
- How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat
- Ability to quickly work with debug and errors logs
Our Tools of the Trade
We Work At The Moment With The Following Tools, We Understand Everyone Will Do a Bit Of Learning On The Job, But You Will Need To Be Able To Meaningfully Contribute To a Selection Of These Tools
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Vault
- Consul
- Keycloak
- Kafka
- Jenkins
- Git
- NGINX
- Go
- Java/NodeJS
- Python
- Ruby
- AWS
- Hubot/CoffeeScript
Desirable Skills
- Experience building roadmaps and capturing user requirements to populate backlog
- Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects
- Leading service delivery in a mission critical production application environment
- Understanding of leading/managing technology products
- Experience of working with failure based testing, for example Simian Army
- Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity
- The ability and desire to automate routine, mundane and non-value added tasks
Personal Skills
- Proven solution leadership skills, with an ability to lead and facilitate solutioning initiatives
- Previous experience contributing to war rooms and blameless postmortems
- Superb communication skills, written and verbal
- Experience of working in a true DevOps environment with daily collaborations
- Show accountability and end to end ownership and provide an example to others
- English as a business language
Challenges
- Willing to travel to USA at various times for collaboration activities.
- 24x7 Availability in case of emergencies
- Working with counterparts in other global teams
- The position may require to be a part of an on-call rotation
- Maintaining 99.9% uptime
- Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster
- Willing to travel to USA at various times for collaboration activities.
- 24x7 Availability in case of emergencies
- Working with counterparts in other global teams
- The position may require to be a part of an on-call rotation
- Maintaining 99.9% uptime
- Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster.
Closing Date- 20/03/2020
Apply- Apply via LinkedIn
