Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer, US Remote

Company Description

  Experian is the leading global information services company. We help businesses provide great customer experiences by managing and analyzing data that will help them solve problems, drive better decisions and outcomes, and prevent fraud. We help millions of people better manage and improve their financial lives – gain access to credit, save money, and protect their identity.

About us, but we’ll be brief

Experian is unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society. We are thrilled to share that FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for. In addition, for the last five years we’ve been named in the 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, from different business units, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring adherence to best practices
• Architect, build, document, and maintain Cloud standards and processes
• Collaborate extensively with centralized architecture, engaging in deep collaboration to align cloud strategies with enterprise architecture principles and standards. Additionally, demonstrate the ability to flex into Business units, understanding their processes and ways of doing things, and integrating cloud solutions to support their specific needs and objectives.
• Lead projects and new application implementations
• Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources
• Guide teams on best practices in the cloud
• Provide mentorship and training to junior and senior engineers, sharing knowledge and experience in cloud technologies, system wide architectural design, and best practices.
• Lead project management activities, including decomposing work into manageable tasks, coordinating with stakeholders, and tracking progress.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring the team follows agile practices.
• Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster management, deployment strategies, and best practices for container orchestration.
• Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS
• Create, manage, and administrate Kubernetes running on EKS
• Possess advanced skills in AWS, including advanced networking, security, and optimization techniques, and stay current with new AWS services and features.
• Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI and automation
• Performance Engineering, load testing, hotspot isolation, and remediation
• POC new solutions and production in the cloud
• Configure APM, SLO, SLA and alerting via Dynatrace
• Configure log metrics and analysis via Splunk
• Build and manage CI deployment process for all environments
• Support and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWS

Qualifications

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Expert level experience and understanding of Terraform
• Expert level diagraming and explaining complex or complicated systems
• Expert level experience with AWS services
• EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, ACL, Routing, Route53, Express Connect/Transit Gateway, EC2 Image Builder, EKS, ECS, ECR, Lambda
• Experienced in AWS database technologies
• Nice to have: AWS big data services
• Experienced using Git based CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in utilizing various infrastructure and dependency discovery tools/agents
• Experienced writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries
• Expert level with EKS creation and administration
• Expert level with Kubernetes application deployment and management
• Experienced writing and maintaining custom application Helm charts and Helm template libraries
• Expert level written and oral communication skills
• Expert level scripting in languages such as powershell, Bash, Python, Perl, and/or GoLang

Required Soft Skills & Experience

• Explaining & presenting complex to complicated technical matters to technical and non-technical people
• Strong ability to decompose large complex bodies of work into actionable stories for others to engage and execute
• Ability to communicate to both technical and executive level people on problem & opportunity things and progress towards goals
• Experience with leading application migrations into the cloud according to best practices, standards and cloud-native architecture.
• 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