Job Description

Company Description

About Experian

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.

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We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced DevOps engineer to join and help us on our DevOps journey. You will be involved in defining technical solutions, infrastructure architectures and will be responsible for delivering production-ready solutions and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will be someone passionate about automation & all things DevOps and understands the real benefits of an Agile & DevOps culture. Of course, with significant experience in DevOps transformation.

What you\'ll be doing

• Be a part of the development team to implement cloud solutions
• Define, develop, improve & automate the operational processes to effectively manage the cloud environment
• Develop and deploy tools for use within the Operations group
• Automate everything from deployment to monitoring and management to incident response - treat \'Everything as Code\'
• Provides technical leadership in Cloud Solutions and promotes best practices in this area
• Evaluate the analytics from the cloud environment to make recommendations for improvements and optimisation
• Lead the technical planning & requirements gathering phases, including estimating, developing, testing, managing projects, and delivering.
• Produce high-level design documentation where required
• Take ownership of our configuration management platforms
• Innovation in all areas - people, process, technology.
• Manage and lead a cross-region team
• Be involved in the various global/ regional DevOps projects

Qualifications

More about you

• Bachelor\'s Degree or equivalent applicable experience
• 3-5 years of experience managing and leading multicultural teams
• Ability to navigate well through different cultures, engage multiple stakeholders and perform in a matrix organisation
• 10+ years of IT experience, at least 1 in infrastructure/operations roles
• Experience with security concepts and technologies (authentication, authorisation, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways and VPN
• Familiarity with network security, encryption technology, and troubleshooting network issues
• Lateral thinking, reverse engineering, good at problem-solving
• Programming skills and a strong interest in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Build and Release Engineering
• Experience programming in python, java, or with other scripting languages.
• Strong Linux administration: Ubuntu / Debian, Redhat / CentOS, strong Windows administration, or both.
• Obsession with good documentation: using a wiki to log changes, write procedures and instructions
• Configuration management tools - Ansible
• Container-orchestration system - Kubernetes / OpenShift / Docker
• Continuous integration tools - Jenkins
• Experience in CI/CD processes and practices.
• Good understanding of distributed version control systems like GIT
• Practical experience with the Atlassian suite (including Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence).
• Experience with issue tracking - JIRA
• Practical experience implementing AWS, Google Cloud and/ or Microsoft Azure
• Automation experience with Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience with cloud-based development and deployment

Production experience with deployment and management of cloud technologies

Additional Information

Adhere to Experian policies and procedures

• Work under the Experian behaviours and values
• Facilitate and drive performance management processes
• Champion a culture where the fair treatment of customers is at the heart of the Experian business
• Ensure that by leading by example, you adhere to all regulatory requirements and apply appropriate controls in the interests of customers. Through the adoption of a top down approach, demonstrate a culture where all our people understand their regulatory obligations, including what the fair treatment of customer\'s means to them and our organization

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