Senior DevOps Engineer- Python Required (REMOTE)

Company Description

About us, but we’ll be brief

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. For five years in a row, we have been named in the Top 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine. With a focus on our employees, we were rated the #1 Top Workplace by the Orange County Register. Experian Consumer Information Services is redefining the way our clients do business within all aspects of the customer credit lifecycle. Fueled by best-in-class data and innovative technology we help businesses make smarter decisions, identify consumers, make decisions on loans, market to prospects and collect.

The CIS ‘s Cloud Platform Engineer team drives the creation of scalable, resilient, and stable environments through Infrastructure as code. We are looking for organic innovation and adoption of cutting-edge cloud technologies in the frameworks and tools we develop for Infrastructure provisioning and service deployments. We are looking for a lead engineer that can provide thought and design leadership and establish best practices. This role spans defining & implementing cloud platform frameworks including container Orchestration platform (example: Kubernetes), IaC and self-service capabilities that helps analytics/batch/streaming/transactional workloads.

Job Description

• Optimize tools and processes for efficiency, cost, stability, and developer productivity
• Leverage programming skills to design and develop DevOps tooling on various infrastructure platforms
• Provide technical direction to platform SRE engineers in automating, streamlining, and scaling our cloud infrastructure.
• Research, evaluate and select the right solutions from new and existing tools
• Evangelize standardized process and framework across services where relevant
• Drive technical decisions and initiatives to streamline our cloud infrastructure operations, security, and efficiency.
• Support the extended engineering team in troubleshooting Infrastructure code failures
• Guide the team through solving complex infrastructure challenges.
• Helping with cloud transformation by influencing other engineers and leadership. 
• Collaborate cross functionally with managers, architects, and engineers to align on decisions
• Collaborate with Engineers, senior architects and leadership team on the north star vision and design relevant solutions
• Up-skill engineers through mentoring and code reviews and build subject matter experts
• Assess deficiencies and points of failure in our system and design resolutions
• Help the team adopt new technologies on an ongoing basis, to solve complex problems

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Qualifications

• 8 to 10+ years of Software Engineering, cloud engineering and/or SRE experience
• Strong Python programming skills required 
• Experience leading, implementing, maintaining scalable critical production infrastructure
• Strong networking skill in public, private and hybrid cloud environments
• Strong analytical and programming skills (Java, Python, IAC)
• Extensive experience with ECS, EKS, ECR, CI/CD and config management tools
• Deep understanding of Container orchestration fundamentals and architecture
• Excellent networking, IaC, containers - diagnostic experience
• Proven hands-on cloud provider experience (AWS (preferred), Optional - Azure, GCP) and services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, VPC, EMR  etc
• Experience with BigData technologies is desired
• Experience working with cloud provider automation tools such as Terraform (strongly preferred), Puppet, Ansible, cloud formation etc
• Assist in building the platform that can host Microservices, APIs and streaming infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience working with Kubernetes on large scale production clusters preferred
• Strong understanding of scale and performance impact of Infrastructure design
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail
• Experience with monitoring solutions for troubleshooting
• Security Experience a plus

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Perks

• Four weeks of vacation to start, five sick days and two volunteer days (plus twelve paid holidays)
• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits package plus 15% bonus target 
• Matched 401K with immediate vest 

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive