{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f9f62c5d8f79d0eaa76ddee1","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f9f62c5d8f79d0eaa76ddee1","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f9f62c5d8f79d0eaa76ddee1","title":"Specialist, DevOps & SRE","description":"DevOps Engineer\n\nGED Testing Service (GEDTS) operates the technology behind the GED high school equivalency credential: the candidate-facing Portal, admin tools, mobile apps, and integrations with Pearson VUE for exam scheduling and Kibo for e-commerce. We are a joint venture between Pearson and the American Council on Education (ACE), running on Microsoft Azure with core workloads on Kubernetes (AKS) and production data on Azure SQL Managed Instance.\n\nWe are hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our agile technology team. You will work alongside an experienced DevOps contractor who knows our environment deeply. This is a partnership role: you will share ownership of our platform, improve automation, support production, and help us grow our in-house capability while learning a mature Azure estate that is still evolving.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nPlatform & reliability\n\nOperate and troubleshoot AKS clusters: upgrades, deployments, ingress, and supporting Azure infrastructure across production, staging, and lower environments\n\nMaintain and extend Terraform for networking, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Key Vault, container registry, and related platform resources\n\nBuild and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and modernize deployment workflows\n\nSupport zero-downtime and planned-downtime deployments and production incident response\n\nData platform (high priority)\n\nMaintain Azure SQL Managed Instance health: backup schedules, monitoring, capacity, and operational confidence that production data is protected\n\nAnswer security and compliance questions with evidence (e.g., encryption at rest, backup posture, and access boundaries)\n\nSupport analytics architecture as it evolves, including secure patterns for Tableau access without exposing PII\n\nSecurity, hygiene, and modernization\n\nImprove observability using Azure performance monitoring, cert expiration tracking, and operational visibility\n\nAdvance security and operational tooling (monitoring, endpoint protection, key management, and remediation)\n\nReduce technical debt across infrastructure (e.g., end-of-life servers, unused VMs, legacy networking resources)\n\nSupport static content and deployment improvements (blob storage, CDN/SWA patterns, front-end asset publishing)\n\nEnterprise context\n\nNavigate requirements from the Pearson organization (centralized logging, vulnerability scanning, VPN access, partner integrations) while keeping GEDTS moving\n\nWhat you bring\n\nRequired:\n\n3+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in production environments\n\nStrong Microsoft Azure skills: AKS, networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway or similar ingress patterns\n\nHands-on experience with SQL Server in Azure (Managed Instance or equivalent): backups, monitoring, performance, and operational troubleshooting\n\nTerraform experience with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state\n\nKubernetes operations: troubleshooting workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades, and persistent storage\n\nCI/CD experience (Azure DevOps preferred, or equivalent with readiness to adopt it)\n\nComfort being reachable via Slack outside business hours when production needs attention; coverage is shared with the development team and existing contractor\n\nAbility to collaborate closely with a senior contractor: communicative, curious, and willing to learn the existing system before changing it\n\nPreferred:\n\nMinneapolis-area or able to be in the office regularly at the start of the role\n\nExperience designing analytics data boundaries (reporting replicas, ETL patterns, or network-isolated access to production data)\n\nTableau deployment or migration experience\n\nSecurity operations familiarity (Sentinel, EDR, cert lifecycle management)\n\nExposure to FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar compliance programs\n\nFamiliarity with Spring Boot, ActiveMQ/JMS, Splunk, New Relic, or Azure Firewall\\\n\nLocation & work arrangement:\n\nFull-time. Primarily remote, with preference for candidates who can come into the Minneapolis office about once a week during the first months of the role. Over time, that eases toward fully remote. Minneapolis-based candidates are a strong plus.\n\nAvailability:\n\nThis is not a traditional pager rotation, but you will need to be reasonably accessible via Slack outside business hours when production issues arise. Coverage is shared with the development team and the existing DevOps contractor.\n\nCompensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.\n\nThe full-time salary range for this role is $70,000 – $119,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.\n\nApplications will be accepted through 10th September 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.\n\nApply today and imagine the impact you can make.\n\n#LI-P1\n\nWho we are:\n\nAt Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.\n\nPearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.\n\nIf you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.\n\nJob: Infrastructure and Cloud Operations\n\nJob Family: TECHNOLOGY\n\nOrganization: Enterprise Learning & Skills\n\nSchedule: FULL_TIME\n\nWorkplace Type: Hybrid\n\nReq ID: 25660","company":"Pearson","rawCompany":"pearson","city":"Bloomington","state":"MN","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-04T08:24:05.001Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Specialist, DevOps & SRE","description":"DevOps Engineer\n\nGED Testing Service (GEDTS) operates the technology behind the GED high school equivalency credential: the candidate-facing Portal, admin tools, mobile apps, and integrations with Pearson VUE for exam scheduling and Kibo for e-commerce. We are a joint venture between Pearson and the American Council on Education (ACE), running on Microsoft Azure with core workloads on Kubernetes (AKS) and production data on Azure SQL Managed Instance.\n\nWe are hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our agile technology team. You will work alongside an experienced DevOps contractor who knows our environment deeply. This is a partnership role: you will share ownership of our platform, improve automation, support production, and help us grow our in-house capability while learning a mature Azure estate that is still evolving.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nPlatform & reliability\n\nOperate and troubleshoot AKS clusters: upgrades, deployments, ingress, and supporting Azure infrastructure across production, staging, and lower environments\n\nMaintain and extend Terraform for networking, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Key Vault, container registry, and related platform resources\n\nBuild and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and modernize deployment workflows\n\nSupport zero-downtime and planned-downtime deployments and production incident response\n\nData platform (high priority)\n\nMaintain Azure SQL Managed Instance health: backup schedules, monitoring, capacity, and operational confidence that production data is protected\n\nAnswer security and compliance questions with evidence (e.g., encryption at rest, backup posture, and access boundaries)\n\nSupport analytics architecture as it evolves, including secure patterns for Tableau access without exposing PII\n\nSecurity, hygiene, and modernization\n\nImprove observability using Azure performance monitoring, cert expiration tracking, and operational visibility\n\nAdvance security and operational tooling (monitoring, endpoint protection, key management, and remediation)\n\nReduce technical debt across infrastructure (e.g., end-of-life servers, unused VMs, legacy networking resources)\n\nSupport static content and deployment improvements (blob storage, CDN/SWA patterns, front-end asset publishing)\n\nEnterprise context\n\nNavigate requirements from the Pearson organization (centralized logging, vulnerability scanning, VPN access, partner integrations) while keeping GEDTS moving\n\nWhat you bring\n\nRequired:\n\n3+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in production environments\n\nStrong Microsoft Azure skills: AKS, networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway or similar ingress patterns\n\nHands-on experience with SQL Server in Azure (Managed Instance or equivalent): backups, monitoring, performance, and operational troubleshooting\n\nTerraform experience with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state\n\nKubernetes operations: troubleshooting workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades, and persistent storage\n\nCI/CD experience (Azure DevOps preferred, or equivalent with readiness to adopt it)\n\nComfort being reachable via Slack outside business hours when production needs attention; coverage is shared with the development team and existing contractor\n\nAbility to collaborate closely with a senior contractor: communicative, curious, and willing to learn the existing system before changing it\n\nPreferred:\n\nMinneapolis-area or able to be in the office regularly at the start of the role\n\nExperience designing analytics data boundaries (reporting replicas, ETL patterns, or network-isolated access to production data)\n\nTableau deployment or migration experience\n\nSecurity operations familiarity (Sentinel, EDR, cert lifecycle management)\n\nExposure to FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar compliance programs\n\nFamiliarity with Spring Boot, ActiveMQ/JMS, Splunk, New Relic, or Azure Firewall\\\n\nLocation & work arrangement:\n\nFull-time. Primarily remote, with preference for candidates who can come into the Minneapolis office about once a week during the first months of the role. Over time, that eases toward fully remote. Minneapolis-based candidates are a strong plus.\n\nAvailability:\n\nThis is not a traditional pager rotation, but you will need to be reasonably accessible via Slack outside business hours when production issues arise. Coverage is shared with the development team and the existing DevOps contractor.\n\nCompensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.\n\nThe full-time salary range for this role is $70,000 – $119,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.\n\nApplications will be accepted through 10th September 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.\n\nApply today and imagine the impact you can make.\n\n#LI-P1\n\nWho we are:\n\nAt Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.\n\nPearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.\n\nIf you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.\n\nJob: Infrastructure and Cloud Operations\n\nJob Family: TECHNOLOGY\n\nOrganization: Enterprise Learning & Skills\n\nSchedule: FULL_TIME\n\nWorkplace Type: Hybrid\n\nReq ID: 25660","datePosted":"2026-09-04T08:24:05.001Z","dateModified":"2026-09-04T08:24:05.001Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Pearson","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Bloomington","addressRegion":"MN","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"f9f62c5d8f79d0eaa76ddee1"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f9f62c5d8f79d0eaa76ddee1"}}