Hybrid DevOps & SRE Specialist

Pearson; Greater London, Manchester, Rotherham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud operations across AWS and Azure. The role blends DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain infrastructure as code and improve observability in production and non-production environments.

You will troubleshoot incidents, coordinate changes and support deployments, working with engineering, security, FinOps and service management teams while advancing automation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) in regulated environments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, including promotion between environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and source-control workflows (Jenkins, Git).
• Ability to manage incidents, changes and automation across production and non-production environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate, secure and optimize cloud services across AWS and Azure.
• Automate delivery and infrastructure as code; improve observability and compliance.
• Support deployments, runbooks and platform remediation with cross‑team collaboration.
• Manage cost, tagging and governance; strengthen security controls (WAF/Shield/IAM).
• Maintain runbooks, training and knowledge sharing across global teams.

Skills

AWS operations

Terraform

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

IAM/KMS/WAF

CloudWatch/CloudTrail

Incidents & Change Mgmt

SRE/ITIL/Kanban

Cost optimization

Tools

Jenkins

Git

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud operations across AWS and Azure. The role blends DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain infrastructure as code and improve observability in production and non-production environments.

You will troubleshoot incidents, coordinate changes and support deployments, working with engineering, security, FinOps and service management teams while advancing automation