Site Reliability Engineer - SRE

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.

We have implemented Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to combine software and systems engineering for building and running large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. The SRE is a key role to ensure internal and external services meet or exceed reliability and performance expectations while adhering to Equifax engineering principles.

As SRE you will be responsible for applying an engineering approach to building and running our production systems – we engineer solutions to operational problems. Our SREs are responsible for overall system operation, we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad set of problems. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems, proactive identification, and prevention of potential outages are something you will be passionate about.

Our SRE culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success.  Equifax brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.  We encourage them to collaborate, think big, and take risks in a blame-free environment.  We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to build an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn, grow and take pride in our work.

Don’t worry if you’ve not used GCP before as we will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skills, get certified and have hands on training all whilst influencing and supporting the exciting programme of work during this transition in collaboration with international colleagues.

You will be joining energised, supportive, teams who drive a  positive culture immersed in leading-edge technology. We develop secure, regulated, scalable technology for both our commercial and consumer customers with a major focus on ensuring they are highly available and always delighting our clients by delivering to service level objectives. 

The perks of being an Equifax Employee?

We offer a wide range of company supported benefits including contributory pension, life cover, income protection, Bupa healthcare, enhanced maternity and sick pay, 26 days holiday and a day off for your birthday, with the ability to buy and sell holidays 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. 

What you’ll do 

• Engage in and improve the software development lifecycle – from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation and refinement

• Influence and design infrastructure, architecture, standards and methods for large-scale systems

• Support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning and launch reviews

• Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health

• Automate system scalability and continually work to improve system resiliency, performance and efficiency

• Practice sustainable incident response as part of an on-call rotation and through blameless postmortems

• Remediate tasks within corrective action plan via sustainable, preventative, and automated measures whenever possible

• Potential on call as and when required

What experience you need

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Good experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud

• Good experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives such as Pagerduty, Datadog, or Grafana.

• Good experience in languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, Java, Go, Javascript and/or node.js

• Good cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases

• Good system administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack, and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Good proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices

What could set you apart

• Expertise designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

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

• Experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• 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

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!

Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Who is Equifax? 

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. ​​​​​​​ 

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.