Intern -Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Pearson is the world’s learning company. We help people of all ages acquire the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in their work and careers. We believe that everyone should be able to keep learning, every day and in every way, throughout their lives. Bringing together everything we know about the science of learning and the latest technology, we’re shaping the future of teaching and learning.

We’re looking for the next generation of talented undergraduates to join our team for an unforgettable 10-week internship. An internship at Pearson is an opportunity to bring your own unique perspective as a learner, together with your academic knowledge, technical skills, and enthusiasm, to help create products used by students like you.

As one of our interns, you will gain a comprehensive introduction to our business. You’ll be assigned to a team and work on real-life projects that bring our products and services to life. On the job training and professional development will be provided to enable you to contribute to the business. You’ll also have direct access to a senior member of the team, as each intern will be mentored to help you make the most of the ten-week program.

We foster a work environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products reflect the people we serve — our teachers and learners.

Successful candidates will spend 10 weeks working with our technology teams.

You will be paid for the duration of your internship. The internship begins on Monday, June 6th and ends Friday, August 12th, 2022.

We’re looking for an energetic and talented Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join the team at Pearson. In this role, you’ll be working on various technologies in the data centers and the cloud, working alongside various product teams and applications to transform the enterprise. 

Responsibilities 

● Ability to assist in solution design in a large enterprise or service provider during design, implementation and service phases 

● Work on design solutions which are large complex solutions with aggressive uptime, performance and availability targets 

● Architect, design and implement solutions that will require AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, EFS, VPC) 

● Interest in architecting solutions leveraging Cloud technology including but not limited to AWS, OpenStack, VMWare vCloud, and Azure 

● Experience with running hybrid Cloud solutions (on-prem and AWS) 

● Analysis of applications to understand data flows, to migrate its functionality from on prem to the cloud 

● Lead and ensure success of testing of applications, software and services on AWS platforms 

● General network experience, on-prem & cloud 

● Develop hybrid Cloud network solutions based on routing protocols and mesh Virtual Private Networks for connecting sites 

● Understand and translate on-prem firewall and load balancer technologies to AWS 

● Demonstrate experience in AWS networking of design and implementation 

● Proficient in both AWS infrastructure and on-premise legacy environments 

● Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in AWS 

● Collaboration with other Technology groups within the organization to successfully complete assigned projects 

● Support optimization of Pearson costs in the data centers and in the cloud 

● Build capability, competence and confidence with key business and technical stakeholders in the region 

● Detailed understanding of high availability and disaster recovery principles and design tenants 

● Can interpret technical designs into business requirements and talk logically about the relationships between multiple technologies 

  

The Ideal Candidate 

● Deals well with ambiguous or undefined problems; ability to think abstractly  

● Comfortable performing requirements analysis, interfacing with stakeholders of various levels and documenting solutions 

● Excellent interpersonal skills 

● Ability to articulate technical topics to non-technical audiences both in writing, in diagrams and in person 

● Energetic team player who works well across boundaries and readily adapts to change and enjoys rapid development 

● Confident of your skills, abilities and willing to share what you know, while learning from others 

Qualifications - External 

Minimum Qualifications: 

● Experience with Agile concepts and practices. 

● Knowledge of full-stack IT experience: *nix, Windows, hardware, network/firewall concepts, public cloud services, LDAP/Active Directory, DNS, automation tools (Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Docker) 

● Experience with Enterprise networking routing, load balancing, and firewall (Cisco, F5, and CheckPoints) 

● Experience with AWS (ALB, ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and IAM) 

● Knowledge of various database technologies (NoSQL, SQL, Mongo, Cassandra) and AWS DB services (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, etc) 

  

Preferred Qualifications 

● Currently enrolled in a college program, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related quantitative field