Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer - Cloud Reliability & FinOps

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson in the United Kingdom is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud services across AWS and Azure. You will blend DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain infrastructure as code, and improve observability across non-production and production environments.

The role requires hands-on cloud experience in regulated environments, strong incident response and change management skills, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating cloud platforms in regulated, business-critical environments.
• Able to automate and manage IaC and observability.
• Experience with incident response and change management.
• Strong communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• AWS/Azure administration and cost analysis.
• Automate delivery with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage security controls (WAF, Shield, IAM) and compliance.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and FinOps teams.

Skills

AWS operations

Azure knowledge

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Cloud security

WAF/Shield

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

ServiceNow

ITIL

Kanban

Jira

Confluence

Cost optimization

FinOps

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Pearson in the United Kingdom is seeking a Specialist, DevOps & SRE to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud services across AWS and Azure. You will blend DevOps, SRE and operational service management to automate delivery, maintain infrastructure as code, and improve observability across non-production and production environments.

The role requires hands-on cloud experience in regulated environments, strong incident response and change management skills, and the ability to