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Inspire innovation. Empower learning.\nPearson, the world's leading learning company, is hiring a DevOps & SRE Engineer, AI Control Plane for our Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to join the AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) team.\nWhy This Role Matters:\nThe AI Control Plane (AICP) is Pearson's flagship investment in AI infrastructure: a multi-year programme that closes Pearson's AI governance gap, accelerates how teams ship AI value, and builds the strategic know-how to keep AI cost-effective as usage scales. It delivers enterprise-wide visibility into Pearson's AI estate-what is deployed, what it costs, where it creates value, and what we should do next. AICP sits inside OCTO's AI Centre for Enablement (C4E).\nThis role anchors the operational posture of AICP's enterprise governance and telemetry layer-reliability, observability, CI/CD, and cost-for a platform that runs at Pearson scale. You make that platform dependable so engineering teams can build on it with confidence, working alongside colleagues across Poland and Pearson's wider estate and partnering with the external delivery partners that provision it.\nAs a member of OCTO AI C4E and Pearson, you are expected to embody and role model our leadership dimensions:\nLive Our Purpose: You align your values, actions, and goals with Pearson's mission. You connect daily work to our broader purpose and make decisions that reflect a deep understanding of our strategy.\nSimplify the Complexity: You navigate ambiguity and distil complexity into clear, actionable plans. You help teams focus and execute in a dynamic environment.\nCarry Our Culture: You foster customer centricity, high performance, and strong collaboration. You lead with integrity and contribute to inclusive, high-performing teams.\nDeliver Results: You set ambitious goals and execute with quality, precision, and speed. You hold yourself accountable for outcomes and measurable impact for learners and stakeholders.\nWhat You'll Do\nStand up the operating model for AICP's enterprise governance and telemetry platform: define SLOs, on-call, incident response, and post-incident learning that keep the service reliable as adoption scales.\n\nBuild and maintain the deploy and runtime platform-CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environments, secrets, and identity-so engineering teams ship changes quickly and safely.\n\nDesign observability and cost visibility for AI-specific workloads-latency, drift, spend, and safety-and convert recurring incidents into automated, lasting reliability improvements.\n\nPartner with engineering teams across Pearson and the external delivery partners that provision the platform, rolling out new processes and tools and providing technical guidance on deployment and incident management.\n\nWho You Are:\nCustomer-centric: you measure success by fewer disruptions for the people who depend on Pearson's AI services, not by activity.\n\nBar-raising: you seek out better tooling and share the lessons from every incident and deployment so the whole team improves.\n\nCollaborative beyond your remit: you join technical design sessions, help developers with problems that aren't strictly yours, and share ownership of outcomes while encouraging safe experimentation.\n\nWhat You Bring\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nCloud computing, infrastructure as code, software development, and version control expertise, with a bias for automation over manual ceremony.\n\nStrong problem-solving and analytical skills, plus the information-security awareness to run a platform that handles sensitive AI governance data safely.\n\nClear communication and stakeholder engagement: you articulate reliability trade-offs and cost posture to technical and non-technical audiences, and you are fluent enough in AI workloads to design observability that fits them.\n\nWhat You'll Gain:\nThe chance to set the reliability and operational bar for a Board-visible AI infrastructure programme sponsored by OCTO leadership.\n\nOwnership of the platform that keeps Pearson's enterprise AI governance and telemetry layer reliable, observable, and cost-effective at scale.\n\nDirect collaboration with engineering teams across Poland and Pearson's wider estate, and visibility across OCTO and the Chief Data & AI Office.\n\nWhy Pearson?\nAt Pearson, we don't just build careers-we accelerate them. This position provides visibility across the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the AI C4E, with a clear path into broader technical and strategic roles.\nWe believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer competitive benefits designed to support the diverse needs of our people and their families. Explore our Benefits.\nPearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. 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