About the role

Sr Cloud Engineer, ESS Ascend Platform

About the Role:

Our ESS Ascend Platform team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure and observability for Experian Software Solutions (ESS) division. We are seeking a Sr Cloud Engineer for our team to help us continuously improve how we build, monitor, secure and run our rapidly growing cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On this team, you will have the opportunity to use your expertise in coding, system design thinking, and analytical skills to provide reliable cloud infrastructure and observability tools for the rest of the product development teams.

What You’ll Do Here

Build our platforms, systems, and infrastructure using your solid expertise in coding.
Work closely with product development teams, providing hands-on engagement to develop, direct, and implement reliable, secured and cost-effective cloud solutions.
Participate with a cross-departmental functional team to establish a cloud operational governance framework.
It often involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with platform services.

What You'll Need To Succeed

Must Have Skills:

5-8+ years of Software Engineering experience with 3 – 5+ years in Cloud engineering.
Expertise in Linux, security, networking, containerization, and cloud design patterns.
Expertise to develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment processes.
Extensive experience with AWS IAM, EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Networking, Security, CI/CD, and config management tools.
Deep understanding of Container orchestration fundamentals and architecture.
Experience in at least one scripting language - Shell, Python, etc.
Expertise in implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards. This includes configuring IAM policies, VPC settings, encryption, and monitoring solutions.
Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams including developers, application architects, and engineering managers to design and implement solutions and align on design decisions.
Guide the team through solving complex infrastructure challenges.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.
Experience with observability solutions.

Nice to have skills:

Knowledge and working experience in implementing one or more Observability platforms like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, etc. to measure telemetry data like logs, metrics, and traces.
Experience with BigData platforms, like AWS EMR, Databricks, Cloudera, Hortonworks, etc.