Lead Platform Engineer

Kount; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Platform Engineer responsible for ensuring systems run efficiently and problems are resolved. The role involves managing uptime, building CI/CD pipelines, and requires a BS in Computer Science, along with several years of relevant experience in software engineering and cloud services. Comprehensive benefits and a focus on personal development are part of the exciting opportunity.

Benefits

Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages

401k matching

Paid time off

Organizational growth potential through online learning

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in software engineering or systems administration.
• 2+ years developing in public cloud.
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure uptime.

Responsibilities

• Manage system uptime across cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for deployment of applications.
• Lead availability postmortem and actions to remediate issues.

Skills

Python

Bash

Java

Go

JavaScript

Node.js

Automation

Orchestration

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

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.

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

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

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:

USA-St. Louis-Lackland

Function:

Function - Tech Engineering and Service Ops

Schedule:

Full time