Site Reliability Engineer – Specialist

Overview

In this role you will help ensure reliable, scalable production systems at Equifax. You’ll work with cloud-native and hybrid architectures to keep services up and performing. You’ll build and run automated tooling, incident response, and postmortems to continuously improve availability. This position sits at the intersection of software engineering and systems operations, enabling cross-functional collaboration and learning in a blame-free environment. You will have a tangible impact on service resilience and operational excellence.

Pay / Benefits

• contributory pension
• life cover
• income protection
• healthcare
• 26 days holiday + birthday day off
• flexible benefits including cycle to work, gym discounts, and learning platform

Responsibilities

• Manage system uptime across cloud-native (AWS, GCP) and hybrid architectures
• Build infrastructure as code patterns using Terraform, cloud CLI, and cloud SDK
• Create CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment with Jenkins and cloud-native toolchains
• Develop automated tooling to deploy service requests to production
• Create comprehensive runbooks for detect, remediation, and restore of services
• Triage complex distributed architecture service maps and troubleshoot
• On-call for high-severity incidents and lead blameless postmortems with actionables to prevent recurrences

Key requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience in software engineering, systems administration, database administration, and networking
• Experience developing or administering software in public cloud
• Experience monitoring infrastructure and uptime to meet performance objectives
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Java, Go, JavaScript and/or Node.js
• Knowledge of systems, storage, networking, security and databases
• Automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Terraform, Chef, Ansible and/or Docker/Kubernetes
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and practices
• Cloud Certification (Strongly Preferred)

• Blameless collaboration
• Strong problem solving
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Terraform
• cloud CLI scripting
• cloud SDK

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