Advanced Specialist, DevOps & SRE
Description DevOps Engineer GED Testing Service builds and operates the technology behind the GED high school equivalency credential: a student-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. Our platform runs on Microsoft Azure, with core workloads on Kubernetes (AKS) and production data on Azure SQL Managed Instance. What you'll do Platform and reliability - Operate and troubleshoot AKS clusters: upgrades, deployments, ingress, and the supporting Azure infrastructure across production, staging and lower environments - Maintain and extend Terraform for networking, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Key Vault and container registry - Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, support zero-downtime deployments, and take part in production incident response Data platform (high priority) - Keep our Azure SQL Managed Instance healthy: backups, monitoring, capacity, and operational confidence that production data is protected - Support secure analytics patterns that make data available to Tableau without exposing PII Security and compliance - Provide technical evidence for audits, ISO 27001/27701 and client security questionnaires: encryption, access, logging, backups and platform controls - Own day-to-day security hygiene: vulnerability management, access certification, certificate lifecycle, and coordination of penetration tests and disaster recovery exercises Partnership - Document and transfer knowledge about the system so the team is not dependent on any one person What you bring Required - 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE, including independent ownership of cloud infrastructure - Strong Microsoft Azure skills: AKS, networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway or similar ingress patterns - Hands-on experience with SQL Server in Azure (Managed Instance or equivalent): backups