Principal Engineer - Foundation Infrastructure

Principal Engineer - Foundation Infrastructure

Location: Continental US ( San Antonio, Denver, Durham preferred)

Responsibilities

• As part of the Private Cloud and Network team you will be Develop, deploy, and support Pearson’s proprietary hybrid-cloud interconnect platform.
• Work closely with the internal tools team to develop monitoring of Pearson’s global infrastructure estate.
• High level network troubleshooting both Cloud based and traditional

Supervisory responsibilities

• Indirect supervisory responsibilities as a Technical Lead - Mentor for Pearson FTE Network engineers and contractors.
• Project management experience managing implementations of new enterprise-wide technology initiatives. This may involve overseeing the work of third-party service providers.

Qualifications

Skills / Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience in a large-scale infrastructure environment, ideally a Content Delivery or Internet Service Provider.
• Routing & switching subject-matter expert with specific emphasis on global-scale wide-area networks, BGP, and VPN overlays.
• Deep knowledge of foundational principles of data-networking, load-balancing (F5 a plus), network security, virtualization technologies, public cloud platforms, and application delivery.
• Expert knowledge of enabling services such as DNS, strong systems administration skills with a focus on RHEL/CentOS platforms, and a deep understanding of end-to-end monitoring and management methodologies and tools. InfoBlox knowledge a plus.
• Firewall and IDS Security expertise preferable with Checkpoint and Fortigate
• Strong programming skills, with the ability to write modular, maintainable code (preferably Python), experience refactoring and peer-reviewing code, and experience of building and working in development environments using tools such as virtualenv.
• Experience developing, building, and supporting code-driven infrastructure on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and the extension of this code-driven methodology to traditional on-premise infrastructure.
• Experience using automation frameworks and tools such as Git, Rundeck, Ansible, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
• Confident, critical thinking problem solver with excellent written and interpersonal skills; ability to make sound decisions under pressure with limited information, and influence decision making at all levels.
• Proactively research and locate the necessary tools and processes to identify troublesome trends as they develop; analyze and predict trends and develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring; maintain high service levels for the user community and establish a method to easily compare the installation performance against established performance objectives.

Formal Education or Equivalent

• Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) or Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) credentials a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $125,000.00-$135,000.00. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

Req ID: 2112748