Senior Cloud Engineer

About us, but we’ll be brief

We are very proud that FORTUNE named us 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 .

What you’ll be doing

• Assist in architecting, building, documenting, and maintaining Cloud standards and processes
• Lead projects and new application implementations
• Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources
• Create, manage, and administrate Kubernetes running on EKS
• Train, mentor, and direct junior team members
• Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI and automation
• Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS
• Performance Engineering, load testing, hotspot isolation, and remediation
• Guide teams on best practices in the cloud
• 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

What your background looks like

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Experienced with using, building with and understanding of Terraform
• Senior 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 writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries
• Experienced with EKS creation and administration
• Experienced with Kubernetes application deployment and management
• Experienced writing and maintaining custom application Helm charts and Helm template libraries
• Experienced at written and oral communication skills
• Experience with observability patterns and platforms for both dashboarding, alerting, and triaging both within AWS and other providers (Splunk, Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, etc)

Required Soft Skills & Experience

• 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 deploying systems to production.
• Create automation for anything that is repeatable and can be automated.
• Expertise in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing.
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and high availability.
• Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of incidents.
• Experience working with APM and log aggregation tools as well as configuring the integrations and monitoring needed to leverage these tools.
• You’ve demonstrated the ability to effectively work collaboratively across functions and communicate between many different teams.
• Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks
• Thinking strategically by identifying bodies of work and providing the decomposition of smaller tasks or stories that enable other team members to work together accomplish the goal

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 [email protected]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 holidays and parental and family care leave, an employee stock purchase plan and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay range for this position is listed above. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors such as job-related skills, experience and education. This position is also eligible for a variable pay opportunity and a comprehensive benefits package which includes health, life and disability insurance, generous paid time off including paid parental and family care leave, an employee stock purchase plan and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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