Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Experian's Infrastructure team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and be responsible for the availability, efficiency, and resilience of our software systems. You will balance system operations, software development for improved reliability and performance, and leading projects to enhance Cloud operations. Collaborate with software engineering teams using similar technologies in design, deployment, and ongoing operations. This remote US-based role reports to the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering. Apply software engineering principles, design and implement reliability-enhancing tools, lead configuration and deployment efforts, contribute to internal and open-source projects, monitor system performance, participate in on-call support, uphold SDLC standards, collaborate with project managers, mentor teammates, lead technical interviews, and develop infrastructure abstraction layers.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a cloud-based infrastructure role with development and automation experience, at least 2 years with GCP
• 5+ years in a DevOps role with scripting/automation experience
• 3+ years of experience using Terraform in a cloud environment
• Experience developing Terraform modules
• Shell, Python scripting abilities, familiarity with Golang
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and SDLC tools (ex. Github actions, Jenkins, Harness)
• Cloud architecture (network, storage, compute, messaging)
• Passionate about best practices and reliable, sustainable, scalable environments

Responsibilities

• Apply software engineering principles and best practices to system operations and administration
• Design and implement tools to enhance the reliability, performance, and operations of commercial software systems
• Lead configuration, testing, security, and deployment efforts for project work
• Contribute to internal libraries, frameworks, and occasionally to open source projects
• Monitor and improve runtime characteristics of department-wide software systems
• Participate in on-call support rotations
• Uphold Software Development Life Cycle quality standards by promoting DevOps tools and abstractions
• Collaborate with project managers and other partners
• Mentor teammates and lead technical interviews
• Develop infrastructure abstraction layers to empower engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience or interest in: Airflow, Kubernetes, OPA / REGO, Go / Python

Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays