Senior Systems Engineer

Company Description

Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 65 countries around the world. The company helps organizations to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, provide data security, and automate decision making.

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.

Job Description

Experian Clarity is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer that has a strong Linux background and has worked in an AWS environment, but who is eager to get their hands on Windows, VMWare and Cisco infrastructure. We are a small operations team in a cross functional support environment, so we need someone who will embrace all technologies. If you have the Linux background, with some experience in AWS and a desire to work with Windows, then we really want to speak with you.

About us, but we’ll be brief

Experian Clarity is the leading source of alternative credit data in the subprime lending industry. By leveraging alternative data, our market- savvy data analysts are discovering trends and providing our clients innovative solutions for fraud, banking information, credit, compliance, prospecting and portfolio management. 

What you’ll be doing

You will be working on the core compute platforms in the cloud and maintaining on-prem system in a hybrid environment. You will ensure that our software products delivered are always available and performant under exponential growth conditions. You’ll partner with fellow engineers to configure and maintain systems that can stand the test of scale and availability, while limiting operational overhead. You will drive efficiencies in systems and processes such as capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.

• Maintain and operate infrastructure platforms to help improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency in all areas
• Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Build automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Assist in building out the DevOps strategy for hosting and managing our data analytics platforms in AWS cloud 
• Ensure the integrity of the entire infrastructure by maintaining a proactive security posture against potential threats.  Work with security teams to patch and replace any elements deemed necessary by internal or 3rd party risk assessment
• Conducts and oversees complex projects working with peers and the efforts of external groups and vendors in the performance of assigned projects
• Ability to take on-call responsibilities to remediate after hours issues and as needed, support users as an escalation for complex networking/application issues

Qualifications

What your background looks like

Associate degree, technical school or related degree training with technology application skills including Ansible, Linux, and basic scripting.

• You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.
• Expertise in working with physical and virtual environments in Linux and Windows, infrastructure deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing.
• Solid understanding of Systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.

• Cisco Network Device Administration (ASA/FTD Firewalls, Nexus Switches)
• Linux Administration (Amazon Linux, RedHat and CentOS preferred)
• Microsoft Windows Server Administration (2012 and newer)
• Database (MySQL/MS SQL/Mongo) exposure
• Experience with Cisco Call Manager and Networking hardware

• 7+ years of experience i