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.
What You'll Do
- Reliability Management: Manage system uptime across cloud-native (AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures.
- Infrastructure as Code: Build reusable IaC patterns using Terraform and Cloud SDKs to meet security standards.
- CI/CD Engineering: Design and maintain robust pipelines using Jenkins and cloud-native toolchains for seamless deployments.
- Incident Response: Lead triage for complex distributed architectures; participate in on-call rotations for high-severity incidents and drive MTTR reduction.
- Operational Engineering: Replace manual toil with automated tooling and lead blameless postmortems to prevent recurrence.
What Experience You Need
- Education: BS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 710 years in technical roles (Software Engineering or Systems Administration) with at least 4 years specifically managing production environments in AWS or GCP.
- Coding Proficiency: Strong experience in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java) and shell scripting (Bash).
- Orchestration: Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) and configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef.
- Observability: Proven experience with monitoring and logging stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK) to ensure SLO/SLI compliance.
What Could Set You Apart
- Cloud Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Professional Google Cloud Engineer.
- DevSecOps Mindset: A track record of integrating security scanning and compliance directly into the CI/CD lifecycle.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to demonstrate how you've optimized complex distributed systems to improve global availability.
- Cloud Financial Engineering (FinOps): Partner with Finance and Product leadership to drive cloud cost transparency; implement automated rightsizing, cost-optimization, and reliable cloud cost forecasting.
- Team Leadership & Talent Growth: Direct a high-performing squad of SREs, providing technical mentorship, conducting performance reviews, and fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning through structured career pathing.
- Mentorship & Influence: mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical roadmaps across cloud-native environments.
