Lead Platform Engineer (Finance)

Platform Engineering at Equifax is a discipline that combines software and systems engineering for building and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. A Platform Engineer ensures that internal and external services meet or exceed reliability and performance expectations while adhering to Equifax engineering principles.

This role requires being in the office 3 days/week on Tues - Thurs.

This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

What you'll do

• 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.
• Build automated tooling to deploy service requests to push a change into production. Build runbooks that are comprehensive and detailed to manage detect, remediate and restore services.
• Solve problems and triage complex distributed architecture service maps. On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR
• Lead availability blameless postmortem and own the call to action to remediate recurrences.

What experience you need

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required
• 5-7 years of experience in software engineering, systems administration, database administration, and networking.
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
• Experience in languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go JavaScript and/or node.js
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases
• System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Terraform, Chef, Ansible and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

What could set you apart

• Google Cloud Certification
• Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine is strongly preferred
• Experience working with Jenkins and Argo