Senior DevOps & SRE: Azure AKS Terraform Security (Remote)

Pearson; BLOOMINGTON (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Cloud Operations engineer to own the cloud platform serving GED Testing Service candidates and data. You will manage AKS, Terraform, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and CI/CD pipelines, driving reliability and scalable deployments in a largely remote role.

You will collaborate with a senior contractor and security teams to ensure ISO 27001/27701 compliance, logging, backups, and disaster recovery, while sharing knowledge across the team to reduce

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE with independent ownership of cloud infrastructure.
• Strong Microsoft Azure skills: AKS, networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway or similar ingress patterns.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server in Azure (Managed Instance or equivalent): backups and monitoring.
• Terraform with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state.
• Kubernetes operations: workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades and persistent storage.
• Ability to mentor peers and transfer knowledge with a senior contractor.

Responsibilities

• Operate and troubleshoot AKS clusters, upgrades, deployments, and Azure infrastructure
• Maintain Terraform for networking, gateways, firewalls and registry
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and incident response
• Keep Azure SQL Managed Instance healthy with backups and monitoring
• Support secure analytics patterns and data access via Tableau
• Ensure security hygiene: audits, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE

Azure cloud ownership

Azure AKS

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Docker/ACR

Key Vault

Application Gateway

Front Door

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Splunk

New Relic

Tableau

Spring Boot

Angular

Job description

Pearson is seeking an experienced Infrastructure and Cloud Operations engineer to own the cloud platform serving GED Testing Service candidates and data. You will manage AKS, Terraform, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and CI/CD pipelines, driving reliability and scalable deployments in a largely remote role.

You will collaborate with a senior contractor and security teams to ensure ISO 27001/27701 compliance, logging, backups, and disaster recovery, while sharing knowledge across the team to reduce