Summary
The Pearson Virtual Schools SRE team is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support applications recently migrated from legacy data centers to the cloud. This hybrid role, based in Raleigh/Durham, NC, involves working three days in the office and two days remotely.
Responsibilities
- Work with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for AWS.
- Solve complex problems and work independently with minimal guidance.
- Optimize performance, scale-out, and build resiliency in the platform.
- Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate post-mortems, and ensure permanent closure of incidents.
- Contribute to developing best practices for Infrastructure as Code, software build tools, and Continuous Integration.
- Run, operate, and upkeep Pearson Cloud systems.
- Administer Cloud services, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Support automation services and scripting for cloud deployment and migrations.
- Reduce and remove toil through automation.
- Support cross-cloud applications (AWS and Azure).
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call support rotation.
Qualifications - Desired Experience
- 5+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms.
- Advanced understanding of AWS Services; EC2, ECS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Lambda, FSx, ECR, S3, EFS, Route53, Elasticache.
- Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Experience with containers – Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Advanced experience automating tasks and services with PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Go, bash, and/or similar programming language.
- Experience with the Linux and Windows Server Operating Systems, Active Directory, and IIS.
- Strong understanding and experience with the five pillars of well-architected frameworks.
- Experience in monitoring cloud-based systems using tools like NewRelic, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.
- Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
- Familiarity with agile software development lifecycle – Jira.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git.
- Experience with one or more programming skills like C#, Java, or Golang.
- Experience in designing, analyzing, and solving large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong Knowledge of networking protocols and cybersecurity best practices in a cloud environment.
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines – w/ Azure Devops and GitHub.
Preferred Skills
- AWS Solution Architect Associate certification is desirable.
- Hashicorp Terraform certification is desirable.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Annual incentive program
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