Lead DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments — from buying a home or a car to sending a child to college to growing a business by connecting with new customers — we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 17,800 people operating across 44 countries, and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments — from buying a home or a car to sending a child to college to growing a business by connecting with new customers — we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 17,800 people operating across 44 countries, and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Learn more at www.experianplc.com or visit our global content hub at our global news blog for the latest news and insights from the Group

Job Description

Job Description

PayDashboard’s multi-award winning and trademarked SmartSlipTM portal is transforming the experience of payroll processors, employers and employees.

We enable businesses to give their employees a better payday experience, linking their financial wellbeing to their income and providing the tools they need to understand their pay, their payslip, and how to make their net pay go further via Government allowances and tax breaks.

We are looking for an Infrastructure / Cloud / DevOps Engineer to further improve our technology.

Having recently joined The Experian Group, Pay Dashboard is scaling in the UK fast. We’ve got 500,000 users now, and a goal to achieve 2m users within two years.

In this role you get the best of both worlds. You will have the support and benefits of being part of a FTSE 100 Employer in Experian, but working in a small team as part of a new business unit with PayDashboard.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working as part of our software engineering team to deliver great solutions
• Building and operating the infrastructure that would support or next phase of growth
• Delivering on the best practice standards of reliability and security
• Ensuring security, scalability, cost and high-performance solution wide
• Testing and deploying software quickly
• Automating the build and deployment of infrastructure
• Handling orchestration technologies (Terraform, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Construct infrastructure to host APIs in a secure and reliable fashion for off-site deployment.
• Use novel and pragmatic techniques to ensure deployability and maintainability of our solutions
• Collaborate with team members to ensure a complete, low-maintenance solution is delivered.
• Document design decisions, technical implementation, and maintenance requirements.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Experience/ Qualifications (don’t worry if you cannot tick them all):

• Experience designing and working with highly available, high traffic / throughput, distributed, scalable systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Azure, preferably with exposure to PaaS offerings (for example App Services and Azure SQL)
• Significant experience and knowledge of Docker and building/operating a containerised environment.
• Experience in hosting applications in Kubernetes either self-hosted or PaaS (EKS or AKS)
• Professional experience with automating cloud infrastructure (Hashicorp Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, AWS CloudFormation, ARM Templates, and similar)
• Proven expertise in Configuration Management tools (Puppet, Ansible, etc)
• Experience in Monitoring, log aggregation and tooling (i.e. CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK)
• Strong experience in various technical architecture that includes micro-services, serverless functions, NoSQL
• Database Management Experience (SQL Server)
• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS, Spark
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in working within an DevOps, Cloud or SRE function, with a focus on availability, reliability and automation.
• Experience Working in an Agile team and understand the Scrum Cycle.
• Knowledge of: Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking and Storage.
• Proficient in scripting languages e.g. Python, Power Shell, ARM, Cloud Formation, Terraform, UNIX Shell, Bash, Java, Node.JS or similar.

Additional Information

Discover the Unexpected

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. We’re passionate about unlocking the power of data in order to transform lives and create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. For more than 125 years, we’ve helped economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done.

Our 21k amazing employees in 40+ countries believe the possibilities for you, and the world, are growing. We’re investing in the future, through new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow. To do this we employ the brightest minds that share our purpose and want to make a difference.

Our uniqueness is that we truly celebrate yours.

Experian’s culture and people are key differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously. We focus on what truly matters; DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, engagement, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. We’re an award winning organisation due to our strong people first approach.

Innovation is a critical part of Experian’s DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

Why choose us?
Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money, and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or preparing for the next big milestone in your life, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our interactive guide here: https://view.pagetiger.com/experianguideforcandidates/1

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian.

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our LinkedIn and social media channels using the hashtags #UniquelyExperian

Additional Information

Additional Information

Why choose us?

Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money, and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or preparing for the next big milestone in your life, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our interactive guide here: https://view.pagetiger.com/experianguideforcandidates/1

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian.

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