Company Description
About us, but we’ll be brief
Experian is the world’s leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. We are thrilled to share that FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for. In addition, for the last five years we’ve been listed as one of the 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine.
Job Description
What you’ll be doing
Experian IT Services (EITS) is the centralized technology organization that globally supports all of Experian. Our organization is comprised of about 2,000 employees across the globe supporting and improving our business-critical IT environment/ecosystem. Experian IT Services includes Infrastructure Services, Cyber & Information Security, and Enterprise Architecture. We drive growth through reusable technology providing quicker time to market for solutions, increased productivity, and a more secure environment
Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world. We have always believed that data has the potential to transform lives and create a better tomorrow. We are transforming data into something meaningful: helping businesses to manage credit risk, preventing fraud, targeting marketing offers and automating decision making. We have been named one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes for 3 years in a row. Experian has operated at the center of Big Data since before the phrase was coined. Few companies can offer information services on an equivalent scale
The Senior Devops Engineer is a critical role in our organization, dedicated to ensuring the robustness, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure and applications through superior monitoring and observability practices. This role will work closely with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tooling like Terraform and will have a strong understanding of open telemetry standards. Familiarity with current monitoring and logging tools like Dynatrace and Splunk is essential. This role is ideal for a proactive go-getter who is eager to drive new technology adoption within the organization.
Summary of Primary Responsibilities
• Lead the design and implementation of observability solutions that provide deep insights into application performance, system health, and user experience.
• Establish and advocate for observability best practices across engineering teams.
• Work closely with the infrastructure teams to automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning and scaling using IAC tools like Terraform.
• Ensure infrastructure code is tested, reliable, and efficient.
• Champion the adoption of open telemetry standards to collect, process, and export telemetry data.
• Utilize and integrate monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk to provide thorough insights and analytics.
• Drive the evaluation and adoption of new tools and technologies to keep the organization at the forefront of observability and monitoring practices.
• Collaborate with various engineering teams to ensure smooth adoption and transition to new technologies.
• Analyze existing monitoring and observability practices, identifying areas for improvement or optimization.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the observability team and across the organization.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive environment that encourages innovation and growth
Qualifications
What your background looks like
- 5-7+ years of devops engineering experience
- Information Technology degree and/or technology certifications preferred or substantial equivalent experience.
- Design and implement an observability system for a new microservices-based application.
- Migrate an existing monitoring system to Prometheus and Grafana
- Develop a new alerting system to detect and respond to performance issues.
- Work with the development team to instrument their code for better observability.
- Train and mentor other engineers on observability best practices
- Strong customer and communication skills to interact with team members, customers, vendors and leadership team.
- Advanced Shell scripting and IaC automation skills with Ansible and Terraform
- Deep understanding of open telemetry standards.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.
- Proactive, go-getter attitude with a passion for new technology adoption.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers.
- Working Knowledge of Python and any databases (SQL/NoSQL).
- SMEs in enterprise monitoring like APM, Custom attribute Implementation, synthetic monitoring, browser monitoring, and Log monitoring
- Knowledge of requirement gathering and rollout monitoring and observability solutions. Partner with the business and development teams to identify requirements, define monitoring solutions, and implement the same.
Experience in creating workloads and user onboarding.
Additional Information
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What We Do
Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society.
During life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity.
We gather, analyse and process data in ways others can’t. We help individuals take financial control and access financial services, businesses make smarter decision and thrive, lenders lend more responsibly, and organizations prevent identity fraud and crime.
For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done.
Our 20,600 people in 43 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.
About Experian:
Bringing data to life requires creativity, passion, flexibility and expertise.
We want you to share in our success. That's why we offer rewards that recognise great performance.
Working in a culture of collaboration, achievement and respect we will give you the support and encouragement you need to develop your skills and talents and progress your career.
Everyday our people bring enthusiasm, innovation and inspiration to work and if this sounds like you connect with us at Experian.
