Senior DevOps Engineer

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 are looking for an enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to work within our Consumer Information, Analytics and Decisioning business unit in Experian UK. This is a hybrid role requiring travelling to Hyderabad office once a week.

Background:

The Marketplaces Platform helps people find, understand, and apply for the right financial product. Across Loans, Credit Cards, Auto and Mortgages we work with lenders large and small to help match the right person to the right product and lender. 

In the eligibility space, we collate thousands of updates and product facts to power comparison journeys and for product eligibility we have extensive decisioning capabilities to provide the “pre-approved” mark.   

All our features are built on a robust platform of permissions management, data integrity and support capabilities to ease development and provide a consistent experience. 

As an Experian employee, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion, team culture and the spaces where we work all reflect our mission to unlocking the power of data and technology to make a positive difference to our society and communities.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will work as part of an agile team to develop quality solutions to expand and support our existing portfolio of applications.
• Collaborate effectively with a range of multi-national product teams to support and enhance the full product lifecycle by building and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure and CI\CD pipelines through automation.
• Be an expert on developing and fulfilling non-functional software requirements and providing technical support to our engineering teams.

• Monitor application deployments and uptime to ensure our products remain responsive.
• Propose secure, maintainable and cost-efficient solutions to revise, update, refactor and debug greenfield and established codebases
• Write clean, scalable code, with a view towards design patterns and best practices

• Document services, infrastructure, and operational procedures

Support other team members’ professional development

• 5 to 10 years' hands-on experience with the AWS cloud platform
• >5 years' experience working with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• A strong working knowledge of IAC and Git-Ops practises, with a demonstratable experience of either Terraform or the AWS CDK
• Demonstratable experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins
• Experience in building monitoring and alerting dashboards using tools such as New Relic or Dynatrace
• Experience managing and maintaining both Windows and Linux operating systems at scale
• A solid understanding of networking including IP addresses (ranges and mask), DNS routing, firewalls, load balancers and WAFs
• Understanding of Active Directory (preferably experience with Microsoft AD, ADFS)
• Experience developing applications and tools in .NET (C#) with a strong understanding of application testing (unit, integration, performance, vulnerability)
• Strong experience in Agile ways of working

Useful skills:

• Healthy exposure to databases and database management (MSSQL)
• Understanding of AI tools and how to utilise them in delivering change 

Who are Experian?

We unlock the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. At life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to university, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity.

For more than 125 years, we’ve helped consumers and clients prosper, and economies and communities flourish – and we’re not done. Our 17,000 people in 37 countries believe the possibilities for you, and our world, are growing. We’re investing in new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow.

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian.

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our LinkedIn and social media channels using the hashtags #ExperianLife and #ExperianWay.

Why choose us?

Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or planning for the future, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered!

We are committed to building an inclusive culture and to creating an environment where people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. Our flexible working practices support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as our people. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, and if this is important to you, we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process

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