Senior Manager Jobs at Pearson in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Job Overview

Senior Manager

About Pearson

We have more than 20,000 employees that deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences.

From world-class assessment to virtual learning and beyond – we create the products and services that help tens of millions of people reach their goals each year. And we make sure our products fit with our key sustainability targets – to make learning accessible to everyone, to lead responsibly, and to give the next generation the skills they need to shape a better world.

Our success and ability to help people achieve their potential depends upon us being able to grow with, and adapt to, the rapidly changing learning market. That’s why our digital-first strategy puts consumers at the heart of everything we do, enabling us to deliver the best products and learning outcomes to more people than ever before.

Pearson is listed on both the London and New York Stock Exchanges (LON: PSON; NYSE: PSO).

Job Responsibilities

• Engage, influence, and evangelize SRE practices with development, operational and product groups to align technology service/solution delivery
• Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring actions are followed-up
• Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Bloomberg applications development by instilling engineering reliability into our development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches
• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other non-functional systems requirements
• Must be able to define and report “progress” on strategic initiates and project level tasks to all stakeholders including senior executives, clients and use effective communication approaches with each constituency
• Implement metrics driven processes to ensure service quality targets are met

Requirements

• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, managing large real-time systems.
• Project and process management
• Prior successful experience as a systems performance or site/systems reliability engineer.
• Mastery of Linux/Unix
• Mastery of fault tolerant approaches in a large-scale distributed environment and high-performance systems
• Demonstrated experience working in large, complex systems environments
• Deep understanding of internet and networking protocols
• A passion for performance excellence, robustness, and engineering mindset
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in the filed

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