Cloud Engineer

Company Description

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. This role assists with  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
• Research, evaluate and select the right solutions from new and existing tools
• Evangelize standardized process and framework across services where relevant
• Assist with technical decisions and initiatives to streamline our cloud infrastructure operations, security, and efficiency.
• Support the extended engineering team in troubleshooting Infrastructure code failures
• Assist 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
• 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

• 2+ years of Software Engineering, cloud engineering and/or SRE experience
• Strong Python programming skills preferred 
• Experience leading, implementing, maintaining scalable critical production infrastructure
• Strong networking skill in public, private and hybrid cloud environments
• Experience with ECS, EKS, ECR, CI/CD and config management tools
• Understanding of Container orchestration fundamentals and architecture
• 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 written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail
• Security Experience a plus

Additional Information

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

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and and it reflects what we believe.  See our DEI work in action!

Please contact us at JobPostingInquiry@experian.com to request the salary range of this position (please include the exact Job Title as it reads above in your email). In addition to a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunity, Experian offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, life and disability insurance, generous paid time off including 12 company paid