Platform Engineer

Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy and driven platform engineer with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our platform engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic platform engineer who is passionate about technology. What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and operate high scale applications across the full engineering stack
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.
• Apply modern software development practices (serverless computing, microservices architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, etc.)
• Work across teams to integrate our systems with existing internal systems, Data Fabric, CSA Toolset.
• Participate in technology roadmap and architecture discussions to turn business requirements and vision into reality.
• Participate in a tight-knit, globally distributed engineering team.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on network, or service operations and quality.
• Manage sole project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Research, create, and develop software applications to extend and improve on Equifax Solutions
• Collaborate on scalability issues involving access to data and information.
• Actively participate in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity

What Experience You Need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering or devops experience
• 5+ years experience with Cloud technology: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• 5+ years experience designing and maintaining cloud-native solutions
• 5+ years experience deploying and maintaining microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs

What could set you apart

• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Experience designing and maintaining big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• Experience actively monitoring production systems with live customer facing traffic and the ability to preempt production issues
• Experience with support tools such as ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Datadog, GCP Monitoring
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Deploying infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform and Helm Charts)