Site Reliability Engineering Services

About Pearson 

Did you know Pearson is one of the most innovative education companies ? At Pearson, we add life to a lifetime of learning so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We’re on a journey to be 100% digital to ensure we can deliver direct to consumers everywhere. To meet the changing needs of the global population we have developed a new strategy with ambitious targets. Our Purpose | Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning. At Pearson, we are focused on delivering the best products and outcomes to more people than ever before by leveraging technology, such as the Pearson Learning Platform

We are currently looking for independent contractors, service providers within Site Reliability Engineering

Salary:    100-160 PLN Net + VAT, (depending on service level)

Services:         Site Reliability Engineer

Contract type:    B2B

Location:         Remote or optionally, Pearson Poznań office

The Pearson Higher Education SRE team is looking for an independent contractor, to provide AWS Cloud engineering

services, in order to accelerate our migration from legacy data centers to the cloud. As an AWS Cloud Engineering

provider, you will work with a team of Pearson architects, multi-functional teams of Pearson’s DevOps engineers, and

developers to create highly redundant and scalable systems using the latest and greatest AWS services.  

Required Services:

•  Identifies and implement the most optimal AWS cloud-based solutions
•  Troubleshooting and closure of incidents
•  Consult&contributes on best practices for Infrastructure as Code, software build tools, and Continuous Integration. 
•  Run, operate, and upkeep Pearson Cloud systems. 
•  Administration of Cloud services, monitoring, logging, and alerting. 
•  Support automation services and scripting for cloud deployment and migrations. 
•  Reduce and remove toil through automation 
•  Support applications in a hybrid estate (on-prem and in the Cloud) 
•  On-Call support required 

Required Capabilities

•  Architecture, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms. 
•  Strong understanding of the:
• following AWS Services; EC2, ECS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Lambda, RDS, Cloud Front, ECR, S3, EFS, Route53 
• five pillars of well-architected frameworks
•  CloudFormation or Terraform 
• TypeScript or Javascript 
• code versioning tools like Git, Gitlab/GitHub
•  Provisioning experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Packer, etc. 
•  Experience with:
• containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.), 
• automating tasks and services with Python, PowerShell, NodeJS, bash, and/or similar programming languages, 
• Windows and UNIX/Linux Operating Systems 
• in monitoring cloud-based systems using tools like NewRelic, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc
•  one or more programming skills like Java, Ruby &Golang
•  designing, analyzing, and solving large-scale distributed systems
•  building CI/CD pipelines –w/ Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus, etc
•  Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks. 
•  Familiarity with agile software development lifecycle. - Jira 
•  Strong Knowledge of networking protocols and cyber-security best practices in a cloud environment 
•  Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive 

 AWS Solution Architect certification is a plus