Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Pearson
Location: Santa Fe
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Santa Fe , New MexicoSenior Site Reliability Engineer - ( 2104243 )DescriptionWe are the world's learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is a key member of a small team focused on ensuring that our critical services are secure, reliable, cost-effective, performant, and operationally excellent. This role requires a generalist who can contribute with needs in development, system operations, resiliency testing, security hardening, and performance engineering. The Site Reliability Engineer is comfortable taking on new engineering challenges, defining potential solutions, and implementing designs in a team environment. This position plays an important role in our organization's evolution towards contemporary application and infrastructure management practices and will be expected to both guide and support the team's growth and learning.Primary expectations include:Taking on the most challenging problems facing the team's productsSolving "higher-order" problems facing the team by developing new tools or processesBeing strong advocates for best practices by modeling and teaching them to junior membersDevelop relationships with the product development teams by building trustDiagnose systems problems shoulder to shoulder with development teamsMentoring the junior team members on their journey as an SREBeing able to speak in-depth about the majority (if not all) of the products handled by the teamTaking care of processes implementation consistency across multiple applications Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:Minimum of 4 years prior relevant infrastructure development and software support experience required.Prior experience in architecting cloud-based solutions on AWS.Prior experience in managing cloud infrastructure in AWS.Experience with Linux operating systemsProficiency in Ruby, Python or Bash desired.Experience with TerraformNice to have:Experience with pipeline process and it's implementation (Jenkins and groovy)A strong understanding of the SDLC and the Agile software development methodology required.Familiarity with cloud computing concepts desired and infrastructure as a service offerings. (AWS)A strong understanding of diverse infrastructure platforms and infrastructure concepts required.Versatility as demonstrated with troubleshooting diverse sets of hosting technologies (web server platforms, Java application platforms, operating systems, network components, virtualization technologies, database platforms) strongly desired.Understanding of general networking concepts (CDN, WAF, DNS, PKI etc.) and protocols desired.Understanding of security policies concept (implementation and maintenance) desired.Understanding of backup and disaster recovery concept desired.Knowledge of standard production practices including change management desired.The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000.00-$135,000.00. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: you are a qualified individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access this site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing ppsmhr@ .Please follow the links to "EEO is The Law" , which describes the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability or genetic information, and the "EEO is the Law Supplement" which has additional information for Federal Contractors.The Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision provides applicants and employees notice that Pearson will not discriminate against them for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers.Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, disability status, veteran status, national origin or any other characteristic protected by law.SDL2017

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