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At Pearson, we believe in the power of difference. Harnessing the unique skills, perspectives, and backgrounds of every employee helps us foster innovation and create the most effective solutions for learners around the world. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring that diversity and inclusion are embedded into everything we do. We foster a work environment that’s inclusive and diverse — and where our people can be themselves — so we can reflect the customers and learners we serve.

Pearson is delighted to be committed to the Race Charter, and to be confirmed by Stonewall in the Top 100 Employers LGBTQ+ employers in the UK. We are a Disability Confident committed employer and were recognised in the Best Employers for Diversity 2019 awards. We are featured on The Forbes list of Best D&I Employers and are a Working Mums Top Employer and Age Positive employer. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York Stock Exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). We are proud to offer an exceptional and supportive environment to develop your professional career.

Pearson is seeking highly motivated individuals with a sound technical background to join our Integration Admin team. We take continuous learning to heart. We value positive energy, clear communication, and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background. We look forward to hearing from you.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Serve as key leader and expert on DevOps practices

· Implement and support Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipelines.

· Mentor junior members in the team

· Engage with cross-functional co-located teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable features related to enabling higher developer productivity, environment monitoring and self-healing, and facilitate autonomous delivery teams.

· Install and maintain IBM Integration BUS / App Connect (CP4I) / MQ / Informatica servers and software, develop scripts and establish configuration standards on system setup

· Support, troubleshoot and analyze code on all 3 layers of the stack related to infrastructure, middleware, and continuous integration and delivery frameworks.

· Production Release Implementation plan and Install Support

· Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.

· Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions

· Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

· Work closely with technology teams as required to prioritize activities and ensure compliance to corporate and legal policies

· Work with multi cloud vendor technologies as SAAS provides are all cloud based now.

· Be part of an out of hours on-call support rota as required. Active out of hours support on month end periods is expected.

· Develop IIB / Informatica bug-fixes and small enhancements to existent BAU processes and applications

· Ability to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner to non-technical stakeholders.

· Evaluation and willingness to learn new technologies and maintain industry knowledge.

· Ability to understand and determine when issues should be escalated to a higher level.

· Good attitude that will allow the team to perform better, work as a team player

· Contribute to overall architecture across different stack.

· Contribute to organize work into actionable plans, projects and committed time frames. Manage the effort, communicate status and mitigate risks & issues

· Prepare the weekly and Monthly support report and present to management, highlighting the trends, root causes and recommendations.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Relevant IT experience and hand on experience in most of the essential skills

Essential technical skills / tools:

· IBM Integration BUS / App Connect (CP4I) / Informatica / Spring Boot (Integration)

· IBM Advance MQ (including Managed File Transfer)

· Relational Database - Oracle, SQL Server.. etc

· Linux / Unix command line and shell scripting

· Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Openshift, Jenkins, Python, Bitbucket

· Google, AWS Cloud

Desirable

· App Connect / IIB / WMB / Informatica / AWS Cloud / Google Cloud certification

· Familiar in Java, Unix/Python Shell Scripting

· ETL experience like Informatica Power Centre, IDQ

· Experience in Source Control tool like Subversion, Bitbucket

· Experience in cloud environments like AWS, Google, Azure

· Experience in Administration of IBM Integration BUS, MQ & MFT

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Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them. We are the world’s leading learning company. Learn more at pearsonplc.com. Pearson believes that wherever learning flourishes, so do people. We are committed to being an anti-racist company in everything we do. We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced, opportunities are accessible, consideration and respect are the norm, and all individuals are supported in reaching their full potential. Through our talent, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant place to work. People are at the center, and we are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace where talent can learn, grow, and thrive.

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here: 

http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html

Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience.

We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity.

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