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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Job Description
Pearson is looking for an advanced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead complex projects focused on enhancing our system reliability, availability, and performance. In this role, you'll be a key driver of operational efficiency, mentor junior engineers, and ensure SRE efforts align directly with Pearson's overarching business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Business Impact: Comprehend and align SRE activities with Pearson's business goals, understanding the impact of reliability on organizational objectives.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively drive initiatives within the SRE team that contribute to greater reliability and operational efficiency.
- Incident Management: Lead and coordinate the response to major incidents, exhibiting excellent crisis management capabilities.
- Automation & Innovation: Continually propose and implement automation solutions that elevate operational efficiency and SRE best practices.
- Collaboration & Communication: Foster strong relationships with cross-functional teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Learning & Adaptability: Remain updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, showcasing the ability to adapt and learn quickly.
- Cultural Contributions: Promote and exemplify SRE culture principles such as blameless post-mortems, an automation-first mindset, and data-driven decision-making.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Act as a mentor to Associate and Titled SREs, facilitating their professional growth and development.
- Technical Depth: Display deep technical knowledge across multiple SRE domains, including cloud computing, networking, security, and automation.
- Architectural Design & Review: Contribute to setting the strategic direction of the SRE team, participating in long-term planning and organizational vision.
- Technical Excellence: Achieve mastery over Pearson's systems, architecture, and technology stack, with the ability to address complex technical challenges.
- Consistent Performance: Maintain consistently high performance, proving your capability to deliver results over time.
- Strategic Initiatives: Lead large-scale projects focused on reliability, scalability, and performance improvement.
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About Company
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. That’s why our c. 20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world’s leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn’t just what we do. It's who we are.
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Networking, Storage, Distributed Systems, automation, Python, Performance Tuning, Dashboards, Linux, Cloud Infrastructure, Containers, metrics, Kubernetes, logs, SLIs, Go, anomaly detection, CI CD, alerting, KPIs, Capacity Planning, predictive alerting, event correlation, change-management, AIOps, deployment pipelines, Compute, tracing, infrastructure-as-code, SLOs, Production Monitoring, release validation
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Incident Management, Infrastructure optimization, Forecasting, Cloud cost optimization, AWS billing analysis, FinOps, Budget Tracking, Production Support, Capacity Planning, Linux systems knowledge, Performance Analysis, Tagging, cost allocation, Reliability improvements
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Incident Management, infrastructure-as-code, cost allocation, reliability engineering, Operational Excellence, Production Support, tagging, cloud cost optimization, Linux systems knowledge, Budget Tracking, AWS billing analysis, Forecasting, FinOps
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Networking, Devops, Load Balancing, Grafana, Performance Tuning, Gcp, Graylog, High Availability, Cdn, Slas, Dns, Elk, AWS, Prometheus, Python, Bash, Kubernetes, Azure, Go, Security, Infrastructure Engineering, container orchestration, OpenTelemetry, reliability metrics, SLOs, log management tools, SLIs, Disaster Recovery, observability tools, incident management frameworks, Site Reliability Engineering
Skills:
Incident Management, Forecasting, Cloud cost optimization, AWS billing analysis, FinOps, Budget Tracking, Production Support, Linux systems knowledge, Tagging, cost allocation, Infrastructure optimization, Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis, Reliability improvements