Job description

The role of the Software Engineer will involve working throughout the full development lifecycle. This is an agile environment, with an expectation of working within a variety of technologies with a strong focus on Developing software and tools for DevOps & Automation.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that code and documentation produced are of the highest quality, conforming to set or agreed-upon standards. Should advocate such consistency to all members of the team.
• Work closely with application teams and help them to resolve their issues related to CICD pipeline
• Provides realistic and accurate estimates and achieves on-time delivery.
• Participate in design and code review sessions and mentor other engineers on the team.
• Participate in epic level planning and create user stories.
• Escalates and communicates issues, risks, and concerns to leads or managers.
• Builds competencies in the product and technology domain to set expectations.
• Follows the Pearson processes, and agile practices and motivates his/her team members to do so.
• Makes optimum utilization of engineering tools and technologies to maintain a high productivity level in the team.
• Aligns self to organizational goals.
• Adheres to Pearson values and ethical practices.
• Maintains a sense of individuality in thinking and decision-making.
• Is a professional in work aspects as well as conduct with other individuals.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Excellent skills in Python development including Object-Oriented Programming and Unit testing.
• Good technical knowledge and hands-on experience in Bash.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS Cloud services ie Ec2, ECS, ELB, Route53, VPC, Cloudfront and other services.
• Hand-on experience on Terraform
• Hands-on experience is developing and maintaining CICD pipelines, GitLab is preferred.
• Good understanding of Architectural and Design patterns for application and cloud infrastructure.
• Team-worker with strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact promptly and professionally with teams across different time zones.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS would be a plus.
• Hands-on experience in Relation Databases like PostgreSQL is required.
• Having basic Linux knowledge.
• Experience in converting Business requirements into Epics & User stories.
• Understanding of Agile principles.

Education and Experience

• Individuals should possess a bachelors degree in computing or information technology.
• The individual should have 3-5 years of industry experience in Software Development, and support work