Senior Platform Engineer

Equifax • St. Louis, MO

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive the evolution, reliability, and automation of our cloud-native (GCP) and hybrid infrastructure. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations by building robust CI/CD pipelines, scaling Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and championing SRE practices to maximize system uptime. As a technical leader, you will mentor junior engineers, lead blameless postmortems, and collaborate cross-functionally to turn complex business requirements into resilient, secure, and scalable platform solutions.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required
• Basic certification in key platform tool(s) and/or 5-7 years of relevant experience
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
• Experience in languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go JavaScript and/or node.js
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases
• System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Terraform, Chef, Ansible and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices

Nice To Haves

• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred
• An ability to demonstrate successful performance of our Success Profile skills, including: DevSecOps - Uses DevSecOps operational practices and applies engineering skills to improve resilience of products/services. Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, modifies complex programs/scripts and integrated software services. Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools, and techniques. Applies agreed SRE standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
• Operational Excellence - Develops work plans for short-term assignments of moderate complexity, typically contained within their own function. Consistently monitor and measure systems against key metrics to ensure availability of systems. Continuously seeks new ways of working to make processes run smoother and faster.
• Systems Thinking - Uses knowledge of best practices and how systems integrate with others to improve one’s own work and the work of less experienced colleagues. Builds and maintains an understanding of technology trends and uses knowledge to identify factors that achieve the defined expectations of systems availability.
• Technical Communication/Presentation - Articulates complex messages and the impacts to stakeholders to build support and agreement. Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to tailor to specific audiences. Work with others to achieve results and proactively address sources of conflict and emotion with focus on the best solution for Equifax.
• Troubleshooting - Applies a methodical approach to routine and moderately complex issue definition and resolution. Initiates and monitors actions to investigate and resolve problems in systems, processes and services. Determines problem fixes/remedies. Coordinates the implementation of agreed remedies. Analyzes patterns and trends.

Responsibilities

• Driving direction of a specific platform or application including creation of new environments, software upgrades, and tuning.
• Driving the creation and amendment of automation scripts and supporting documentation.
• Provide software deployment services for QA and production environments.
• Direct application performance monitoring and tuning.
• Be actively involved in protecting the uptime and performance of the application.
• Provide knowledge and expertise in the development and operational support and maintenance for a range of applications and tools.
• Define the updates to the production environment.
• Responsible for the installation, set up and support of third party software running on internal managed environments.
• Designing and setting up deployment procedures, setting up robust processes, monitoring production systems and managing configuration.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.
• Ability to understand complex business issues and identify technical solutions.
• Communicate direction clearly to other members of the team.
• Manage system(s) uptime across cloud-native (GCP) and hybrid architectures.
• Build infrastructure as code (IAC) patterns that meet security and engineering standards using one or more technologies (Terraform, scripting with cloud CLI, and programming with cloud SDK).
• Build CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deployment of application and cloud architecture patterns, using platform (Jenkins) and cloud-native toolchains.
• Build automated tooling to deploy service requests to push a change into production.
• Build runbooks that are comprehensive and detailed to manage detect, remediate and restore services.
• Solve problems and triage complex distributed architecture service maps.
• On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR
• Lead availability blameless postmortem and own the call to action to remediate recurrences.

Benefits

• comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
• 401k matching
• paid time off
• organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree