Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer (DevOps/SRE) — Hybrid UK

Pearson; Rotherham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to oversee reliable, secure cloud operations across AWS and Azure, with strong emphasis on automation, IaC, observability and cost management.

The role is based in London, Manchester or Rotherham with hybrid working and occasional travel to Pearson sites. You will collaborate with engineering, security, FinOps and service management teams to continuously improve runbooks and automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating cloud platforms in regulated environments.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with IaC and automation.
• Knowledge of incident response and change management.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot incidents and service issues across production and non-production environments.
• Coordinate controlled changes and support deployments.
• Manage AWS account resources, IAM, and cost analytics.
• Improve observability with monitoring and runbooks.
• Collaborate with security, networking, FinOps and service management teams.

Skills

Cloud platform operations

Incident response

Automation & IaC

Communication with stakeholders

Documentation & runbooks

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

IAM

WAF/Shield

Systems Manager

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to oversee reliable, secure cloud operations across AWS and Azure, with strong emphasis on automation, IaC, observability and cost management.

The role is based in London, Manchester or Rotherham with hybrid working and occasional travel to Pearson sites. You will collaborate with engineering, security, FinOps and service management teams to continuously improve runbooks and automation.