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

Our platform services engineering team is responsible for providing reliable cloud and data platform for Experian Software Solutions (Global) division. We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for our Platform Services team to help us continuously improve how we build, secure and run our rapidly growing Cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On platform services team, you will have opportunity to use your expertise in coding, system design thinking and analytical skills to provide shared services, tools and infrastructure for the rest of the product development teams abstracting the underlying stack complexities of Cloud.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build platform tools & services to enable product engineering teams to deploy and run their applications (data pipelines, analytical applications, micro services etc) on cloud.

• And often times involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with platform services.

Qualifications

1. Must Have Skills:

   • Solid professional coding experience in Java / J2EE Technologies.

   • Strong working knowledge of Object-Oriented Design principles and J2EE Design patterns.

   • Strong working knowledge of microservices, RESTful APIs & NoSQL Databases & MQ (or) Kafka.

   • Strong working knowledge in Automation Testing – Unit and Integration testing.

   • Strong working knowledge on End-to-end Application architecture and System Design.

   • Experience with front-end Java script app and frameworks.

   • Experience with any of the public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, preferably AWS.

   • Experience with continuous integration/delivery/deployment (CI/CD) practices and frameworks.

   • Experience with Agile development methodologies.

   • Good understanding on observability into the APIs and services developed using various tools like

     Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk etc.

   • Good understanding on running containers (Docker/LXC) in a production environment using one of

     the container orchestration services (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS, AWS EKS).

Additional Information

Nice to have skills:

• Good understanding of Linux, networking, cloud design patterns, API's, and security.

• Experience with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins or any other similar tooling.

• Experience with open source projects like Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow etc.

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