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About PEARSON:

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with over 41,000 people in more than 70 countries, helping people of all ages to make progress in their lives through all kinds of learning.

Pearson owns brands such as Financial Times, Penguin and Pearson Education with overall revenue of over $9.4 B in 2011. Pearson has over 40,000 employees working out of offices in over 70 countries.

We are Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months.  The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 150+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America, Europe and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Operations Engineer receives requests for problem escalation from product support staff, service alerts from monitoring systems, or reports from internal staff. The engineer determines the severity of issues (triage), prioritizes issues, performs diagnosis of system and software components to identify root cause, and takes or recommends corrective action for resolution.

The Operations Engineer is highly comfortable working with diverse web-based applications, particularly course or learning management systems.

The Operations Engineer communicates with product support staff and may occasionally communicate directly with sales staff and customers. The engineer will work with other Operations team members, systems and database administrators, software engineers/QA, technical product managers and vendors to clearly state problems, troubleshoot, diagnose and/or resolve complex technical issues. The engineer also works with product management teams to provide advice on critical enhancements for reliability of PLT applications and communicates details of product/platform releases to the Operations team.

This position requires participation in On-Call rotation

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with diverse web-based applications and learning management systems in a production, mission critical environment diagnosing complex user, application and/or systems problems
• Acquiring a deep understanding of PLT platform applications at the operational level to become the subject matter expert for other departments including product management, engineering, product support and others
• Responding to unplanned incidents and developing means to reduce downtime and minimize customer impact. This position requires participation in On-Call rotation
• Working with various teams to prepare for supporting new and/or highly integrated products and platforms
• Writing excellent documentation to enable other team members and to aid new hire training to easily learn and support our platforms
• Monitoring the daily operations of the enterprise application environment by analyzing information and recommending short and long term resolutions to issues including the creation and maintenance of scripts and automation tools

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with external vendors to support systems as required
• Participating in disaster recovery / business continuity planning

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Ability to effectively multi-task on a variety of daily work assignments in a challenging, fast-paced work environment
• Excellent business communication, organizational and time management skills
• Experience with documentation of complex issues, processes, procedures
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand and clearly explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently
• Motivation to learn and share expertise of new skills and technologies
• Ability to resolve support issues are in a timely and efficient manner
• Knowledge of various computer systems (tools, services, software, etc.)
• Ability to work in Windows environment
• Capacity to seek new opportunities based on business needs and company growth
• Creative problem solving skills
• 3-5 years experience, BS in computer science or other technical discipline

MANDATORY SKILLS:

• Experience with SQL query and understanding of relational database concepts
• Working knowledge of a scripting language such as perl, python, bash, csh
• Ability to read and understand code in Java/J2EE, PHP, XML,.NET, or PHP
• Working knowledge of web application architecture
• Working knowledge of application-based JMS, Apache, Tomcat, IIS

BENEFICIAL SKILLS:

• Remote administration experience (ssh, vnc)
• Working knowledge of Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems
• Previous experience with an enterprise service bus
• Oracle/MS SQL experience
• Familiarity with networking, systems administration- Experience with programming in Java/J2EE, PHP, XML,.NET, or PHP

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, IS, or Electrical Engineering preferred.  Three (2) plus years’ experience working in an internet environment with junior level coding experience; or equivalent education and experience to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

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