Cloud & Kubernetes SRE & Engineer

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds,  and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

Equifax is seeking a creative, high-energy and driven Cloud engineer with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our cloud engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic cloud engineer who is passionate about technology.

What you will do

• Kubernetes: Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters in production, optimizing for performance and reliability.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP (or other cloud providers), leveraging automation tools like Terraform.

• Performance Engineering:

  • Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks in applications and infrastructure.

  • Develop and implement performance optimizations.

• Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to proactively detect and resolve issues.

• Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting and resolving production incidents with a focus on minimizing downtime.

• Collaboration: Work closely with product development teams to promote reliability best practices and ensure smooth deployments.

• Manage system(s) uptime across cloud-native (AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures.

• Build infrastructure as code (IAC) patterns that meet security and engineering standards using one or more technologies (Terraform, scripting with cloud CLI, and programming with cloud SDK).

• Build CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deployment of application and cloud architecture patterns, using platform (Jenkins) and cloud-native toolchains.

• Use automated tooling to push changes into production

• Build runbooks that are comprehensive and detailed to manage detect, remediate and restore services.

• On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR

• Participate in a team of first responders in a 24/7 operating model for incident and problem management.

• Effectively communicate to technical peers and team members in both written and verbal formats.

What experience you need 

• BS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required; Master’s Degree preferred; AI/ML coursework preferred

• Certification in cloud or automation preferred

• Experience in one or more cloud environments (GCP preferred)

• Experience using one or more automation languages (Python,PowerShell, Go)

• Experience with programming languages (Java, C#, javascript) preferred

• Solid understanding of networking

• Experience with one or more other technologies (database, Big Data, AI, etc)

• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and hands-on production administration skills.

• Proficient in Identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks in applications and infrastructure

• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) using tools like Jenkins, Git.

• experience monitoring infrastructure and application performance.

• Knowledge of network infrastructure and security basics (DNS, subnets, firewalls, load balancers).

What could set you apart

An ability to demonstrate successful performance of our Success Profile skills, including:

• Experience with GCP/GKE, Composer.

• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) and/or other cloud certifications.

• Programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go, Groovy or similar languages.

• You take a system problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

• You have experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• You are passionate for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible

• You’ve built software or maintained systems in a highly secure, regulated or compliant industry

• You thrive in and have experience and passion for working within a DevOps culture and as part of a team

• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP, Kanban)

• K8S Config management/GitOPs - ARGO CD, ACM, etc

The Perks of being a Equifax Employee?

We offer a wide range of company supported benefits including contributory pension, life cover, income protection, healthcare, enhanced maternity and sick pay, 26 days holiday and a day off for your birthday, with the ability to buy and sell and free credit checks. We also offer flexible benefits ranging from cycle to work, discounted travel options, gym membership, dining and leisure discounts, financial & savings plans, mobile discounts plus much more!

We also support personal development and have a range of learning options including our global online learning platform and allow you to bring your whole self to work supported by our Inclusion and Diversity, Wellbeing and Employee Engagement forums.

Are you ready to power your possible?  Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!
 

Primary Location:

GBR-Leeds-6-Wellington

Function:

Function - Tech Engineering and Service Ops

Schedule:

Full time