# Specialist, DevOps & SRE

Role: Specialist, DevOps & SRE Location: London, Manchester or Rotherham, UK This role aligns with positions typically advertised in the external market as Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cloud Platform Engineer OR Senior DevOps Engineer About Pearson At Pearson we ‘add life to a lifetime of learning’ so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Pearson was founded in 1844 and has been built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our employees are dedicated to creating high-quality, digital-first, accessible and sustainable resources for lifelong learning. About the Job This position is responsible for the reliable, secure and cost-effective operation of cloud services across AWS and Azure. The role combines DevOps, site reliability engineering and operational service management practices to automate delivery, maintain infrastructure as code, improve observability, manage cloud compliance and support resilient services across non-production and production environments. The position troubleshoots incidents and service issues, coordinates and implements

- **Id**: 3873067
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pearson-specialist-devops-sre>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Manchester, United Kingdom, Rotherham, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:18:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T16:39:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5858
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Publishing, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 34029
- **Name**: Pearson
- **Domain**: pearson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pearson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.769
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Kanban** — Optional: no
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: no
- **SRE** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T15:15:30Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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