Senior DevOps & SRE — Cloud Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Pearson; Hellaby; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Training and certifications support

Job summary

Pearson is hiring a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to operate cloud services across AWS and Azure in a hybrid model. The role combines DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain IaC, improve observability and support resilient services in production and non-production.

You will troubleshoot incidents, manage IAM, cost analysis and security controls, and collaborate with engineering, security, networking and FinOps teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on operation and automation of AWS services with Azure knowledge.
• IaC using Terraform with environment promotion workflows.
• CI/CD workflows using Jenkins and Git.
• Operational support for EC2, ECS, RDS, S3 and related services.
• AWS networking incl. VPCs, subnets, routing and security groups.
• Cloud security controls (IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield).
• Systems Manager maintenance and remediation.
• Cloud monitoring via CloudWatch/CloudTrail.
• Incident investigation and RCA; change management with approvals.

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS account and resource administration.
• Automate delivery and infrastructure as code.
• Improve observability and runbooks; automate remediation.
• Coordinate changes and support deployments across prod and non-prod.

Skills

AWS administration

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

Documentation & runbooks

Monitoring & observability

Education

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure)

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

AWS Systems Manager

WAF & Shield

ServiceNow

Jira & Confluence

Job description

Pearson is hiring a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to operate cloud services across AWS and Azure in a hybrid model. The role combines DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain IaC, improve observability and support resilient services in production and non-production.

You will troubleshoot incidents, manage IAM, cost analysis and security controls, and collaborate with engineering, security, networking and FinOps teams.