Senior DevOps & SRE: Azure Platform Reliability

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

Job summary

Pearson seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to own and operate a cloud-native platform on Azure. You will manage AKS clusters, Terraform networks, and secure data pipelines while enabling reliable CI/CD and incident response across production, staging, and development environments.

Join a team delivering secure analytics, SQL Managed Instance health, and enterprise-grade reliability. Remote-friendly with periodic Minneapolis collaboration and a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE, including 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, monitoring, performance and operational troubleshooting
• Terraform with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state
• Kubernetes operations: workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades and persistent storage
• CI/CD experience, Azure DevOps preferred
• Ability to partner with a senior contractor on knowledge transfer in both directions, learning the existing system before changing it, and mentoring peers on reliability and automation practices

Responsibilities

• Operate and troubleshoot AKS clusters: upgrades, deployments, ingress, and the supporting Azure infrastructure across production, staging and lower environments
• Maintain and extend Terraform for networking, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Key Vault and container registry
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, support zero-downtime deployments, and take part in production incident response
• Keep our Azure SQL Managed Instance healthy: backups, monitoring, capacity, and operational confidence that production data is protected
• Support secure analytics patterns that make data available to Tableau without exposing PII
• Provide technical evidence for audits, ISO 27001/27701 and client security questionnaires: encryption, access, logging, backups and platform controls
• Own day-to-day security hygiene: vulnerability management, access certification, certificate lifecycle, and coordination of penetration tests and disaster recovery exercises
• Document and transfer knowledge about the system so the team is not dependent on any one person

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud ownership

CI/CD

Mentoring peers

Incident response

Tools

AKS

Azure Networking

Key Vault

Application Gateway

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Docker

ACR

SQL Server Azure

Job description

Pearson seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to own and operate a cloud-native platform on Azure. You will manage AKS clusters, Terraform networks, and secure data pipelines while enabling reliable CI/CD and incident response across production, staging, and development environments.

Join a team delivering secure analytics, SQL Managed Instance health, and enterprise-grade reliability. Remote-friendly with periodic Minneapolis collaboration and a strong emphasis on knowledge transfer and