Application Engineer

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Application EngineerDescriptionAt Pearson, we?re committed to a world that?s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education.Pearson Lanka is currently seeking Application Engineers, who will be having hands on experience in the Datacenter and cloud space and will work as a part of a global team.Your responsibilities are to help maintain systems stability, availability, performance levels and you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the design and build of the Pearson Technology Services, involves setting up, supporting, configuring, and maintaining middleware software for development, test, and production servers in geographically-disparate, multi-tiered environments and cloud environments by applying middleware/cloud expertise.Reporting to the Manager ? Applications Engineering, you will form part of a global team that will drive best practice in the hybrid cloud ecosystem. You will be expected to collaborate with, and support other agile product development teams and operational teams whose primary responsibilities will be to support education services in production and pre-production environments.Based in Orion City, Colombo, you will be a passionate engineer with a hunger to learn and adapt to new technology quickly. We demand people who are naturally curious, self-starter and share learning and outcomes effectively with a distributed team.We?re proud of our people - their drive, talent and enthusiasm. Here we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes that push the limits. We?re passionate about our mission to help others reach their full potential through learning and education and this passion demands we only hire the very best.QualificationsAbout youA successful DevOps Engineer will have:Core Skills:? 4 year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, Bachelor ofScience preferred and at least 4 years of professional work experience.? English as a business language? Good understanding on Cloud computing services (ie: AWS, Azure).? Competent on scripting (Bash / Shell, Python, PERL, Ruby, Powershell, Ansible etc.)? CI/Infra Automation (ie: Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Docker, Kubernetes,Vagrant)? Sound knowledge on Linux and Windows Operating Systems.? Good understanding on networking, security and load-balancers (F5, HAProxy,webproxy)? Experience on relational and NoSQL Databases.? Experience on Middleware(Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache etc) and Message Queues? Appreciation of commercial and open source tools and appropriate usage models.? Accepts project delivery responsibilities and demonstrate accountability toleadership.? Makes optimum utilization of engineering tools and technologies to maintain a highproductivity level in the team.? Provides realistic and accurate estimates and achieve on-time Delivery.? Problem solving skills, willingness to learn new technologies.? An appreciation of the need to consider aspects beyond the technical delivery of theservice such as design/architecture, expectation management, relationship buildingand the support wrapper.? An individual who seeks to gain an understanding of an entire system, whounderstands that the system can be constantly improved by identifying thebottlenecks and improving the feedback loops so that the correct actions can betaken.? A system thinker.? Demonstrates the ability to remain calm under pressure in business impactingsituations? Willing to work on Roster (24\

• 5 on desk and weekend on call rota)

Nice to Have Skills:? Object oriented, pattern based enterprise development experience.? Understanding of DevOps and measurements of maturity? Delivery focused with the ability to interact directly with internal customers as aservice provider? Experience of using ServiceNow or similar incident and change tracking tools? Ability to work with product managers, business partners and stakeholders tounderstand and help build short term and long term team goals and objectives? Core and demonstrable experience in leveraging and supporting:? Cloud Architecture (operationalization Cloud/Non-Cloud)? Remote computing services (ie: VMWare, Rackspace)? Monitoring (ie: Zabbix, AppD, NewRelic, MSS, Logstash, ELK Stack, Grafana)? Database (ie: SQL (Oracle, Postgress, SQLServer, MySQL), NoSQL(Mongo,Cassandra, RIAK))? SCM (ie: Git, GitHub, Stash, SVN)? Platforms, languages and runtimes (ie: JavaEE, .Net, Ruby, Python, JavaScript,OpenStack, node.js)? Understanding of Agile tools (ie: Jira, Wiki?s, Confluence Suite)? Understanding of Agile conceptsPearson?s corporate values are Brave; Imaginative; Decent and Accountable. It is crucialthat these values resonate with you and you are able to embody these values. You will benaturally positive, adaptable, proactive, organized and comfortable operating in a changingand ambiguous environment.In exchange for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive compensationpackage, potential eligibility for an annual bonus, supportive peers and management team,opportunities to participate in sporting and social events, career development, trainingprograms and other benefits. Other benefits include transportation services, potentialeligibility for Pearson Shares (save for shares scheme), and OPD / Insurance / Medical.Please apply by submitting a CV and cover letter and please note that only short-listedcandidates will be contacted via phone.Primary Location: LK-1-ColomboWork Locations: LK-Colombo-Orion City Rigel Bldg Orion City Rigel Bldg No 752 Dr. Danister De Silva Mawatha Colombo 900Job: EngineeringOrganization: Technology and OperationsEmployee Status: Regular EmployeeJob Type: StandardShift: Day JobJob Posting: Aug 12, 2019Job Unposting: OngoingSchedule: Full-time RegularReq ID: 1909584Pearson 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.

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