Cloud Engineer III

Job Title: Cloud Engineer III

Role Overview

We are seeking a seasoned CloudEngineer to join our agile Cloud Management team. This role is responsible for design and implementation of a continuous delivery cloud governance and enablement framework across multiple commercial cloud service providers using modern CICD toolkit like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go

You will be part of the Cloud & Service Management organization tasked with modernization and improvement of cloud estate management while ensuring security, repeatability, and speed of delivery

This is a hands-on role with ownership of both solution delivery and platform best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Management

• Design and maintain cloud governance and enablement services across heterogeneous cloud estate spanning Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM cloud service providers
• Maintain cloud estate integrations across observability and security platforms
• Translate security and governance requirements into cloud provider policy language
• Hardening and distribution of approved virtual machine images across the enterprise
• Manage ingress protection services such as WAF/DDoS
• Design and curate log aggregation/streaming to SEIM platforms
• Support new account intake workflow across cloud providers
• Participate in on-call rotation, monitoring cloud management ecosystem availability and performance

Platform Governance & Operations

• Define and maintain environment promotion strategies for cloud provider estates
• Establish governance standards to prevent platform sprawl and security incidents
• Partner with security and technology teams on scoping and rollout of access control policies
• Design and implement agentic workflows that assist with cloud governance tasks
• Provide guidance and enablement to analysts and platform developers

Technical Depth

• Display deep technical knowledge across multiple competence domains including cloud computing, networking, security, and automation
• Demonstrate ability to design durable patterns for cloud estate management

Automation & Innovation

• Build and maintain cloud management continuous delivery workflows
• Develop tools and applications in support of business requirements
• Continually propose and implement automation solutions that elevate operational efficiency
• Implement error handling, logging, and operational support patterns
• Modernize cloud operations using agentic automation and AI/ML-driven insights

Learning & Adaptability

• Remain updated on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Showcase the ability to adapt and learn quickly

Collaboration & Leadership

• Translate new business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Act as a subject matter expert for Google and IBM commercial cloud service providers
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices
• Contribute to platform roadmap and continuous improvement efforts

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Software Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in software/infrastructure as code development
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering and development
• Working knowledge of Google and IBM cloud service providers
• Experience managing heterogeneous cloud estate environments with focus on security and scalability
• Strong understanding of data security and governance patterns for cloud estate management
• High-level of cross-collaboration with internal customers/partners
• Ability to work across many levels of engineers and management
• Experience building and operating automation patterns that rely on AI/ML or agentic workflows
• Hands-on experience with:
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• Go
• Bash
• Cloud Shell/Provider APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong familiarity with Amazon and Microsoft cloud service providers
• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions
• Experience working in a Center of Excellence (CoE) model
• Working knowledge of governance and guardrail patterns for agentic workflows
• Familiarity with:
• Power Shell
• Terragrunt
• Javascript/Node

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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Job: Engineering

Job Family: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 22841