Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GED Testing Service (GEDTS), a joint venture between Pearson and the American Council on Education, operates technology supporting the GED high school equivalency credential. The DevOps Engineer will share ownership of the Azure and Kubernetes platform, improve automation and reliability, support production operations, maintain data infrastructure, and advance security and modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Operate and troubleshoot AKS clusters: upgrades, deployments, ingress, and supporting Azure infrastructure across production, staging, and lower environments
- Maintain and extend Terraform for networking, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Front Door, Key Vault, container registry, and related platform resources
- Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and modernize deployment workflows
- Support zero-downtime and planned-downtime deployments and production incident response
- Maintain Azure SQL Managed Instance health: backup schedules, monitoring, capacity, and operational confidence that production data is protected
- Answer security and compliance questions with evidence (e.g., encryption at rest, backup posture, and access boundaries)
- Support analytics architecture as it evolves, including secure patterns for Tableau access without exposing PII
- Improve observability using Azure performance monitoring, cert expiration tracking, and operational visibility
- Advance security and operational tooling (monitoring, endpoint protection, key management, and remediation)
- Reduce technical debt across infrastructure (e.g., end-of-life servers, unused VMs, legacy networking resources)
- Support static content and deployment improvements (blob storage, CDN/SWA patterns, front-end asset publishing)
- Navigate requirements from the Pearson organization (centralized logging, vulnerability scanning, VPN access, partner integrations) while keeping GEDTS moving
Skills
- 3+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in production environments
- 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, monitoring, performance, and operational troubleshooting
- Terraform experience with disciplined plan/apply practices and remote state
- Kubernetes operations: troubleshooting workloads, ingress, secrets, upgrades, and persistent storage
- CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps preferred, or equivalent with readiness to adopt it)
- Comfort being reachable via Slack outside business hours when production needs attention; coverage is shared with the development team and existing contractor
- Ability to collaborate closely with a senior contractor: communicative, curious, and willing to learn the existing system before changing it
- Minneapolis-area or able to be in the office regularly at the start of the role
- Experience designing analytics data boundaries (reporting replicas, ETL patterns, or network-isolated access to production data)
- Tableau deployment or migration experience
- Security operations familiarity (Sentinel, EDR, cert lifecycle management)
- Exposure to FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar compliance programs
- Familiarity with Spring Boot, ActiveMQ/JMS, Splunk, New Relic, or Azure Firewall
- Full-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
Benefits
- This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
- 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.
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