Senior Multi-Cloud Platform Engineer

Pearson; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate multi-cloud governance and enablement platforms across GCP, IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, and secure, reliable platform engineering to improve security, scalability, and developer experience.

You will lead cloud platform engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and work with Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to establish guardrails and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• 3+ years of experience operating cloud platforms at enterprise scale.
• Experience working in multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, networking, and automation. Candidate must be available during US business hours during training; after, hours may shift.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud governance and enablement services across multi-cloud environments (GCP, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Develop reusable platform capabilities that accelerate secure cloud adoption.
• Implement and maintain cloud onboarding frameworks for accounts/projects.
• Design and manage enterprise cloud networking, security, and connectivity patterns.
• Maintain integrations with observability, monitoring, logging, and security platforms.
• Build and manage secure ingress protection services including WAF and DDoS controls.
• Design enterprise logging, telemetry, and SIEM integration patterns.
• Develop and maintain golden VM images and hardened infrastructure baselines.

Skills

Cloud governance

Automation

Python

Observability

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

CI/CD

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate multi-cloud governance and enablement platforms across GCP, IBM Cloud, AWS, and Azure. The role emphasizes IaC, automation, and secure, reliable platform engineering to improve security, scalability, and developer experience.

You will lead cloud platform engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and work with Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to establish guardrails and scalable solutions.