Senior Systems Engineer

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.  For five years in a row, we have been named in the Top 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine.  Fueled by best-in-class data and innovative technology we help businesses and consumers make smarter decisions and create a better tomorrow.

About us, but we’ll be brief

Experian Clarity is the leading source of alternative credit data in the subprime lending industry. By leveraging alternative data, our market- savvy data analysts are discovering trends and providing our clients innovative solutions for fraud, banking information, credit, compliance, prospecting and portfolio management. 

Experian Clarity is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer that has a strong Linux background and has worked in an AWS environment, but who is eager to get their hands on Windows, VMWare and Cisco on premise infrastructure. We are a small operations team in a cross functional support environment, so we need someone who will embrace all technologies. If you have the Linux background, with some experience in AWS and a desire to work with WIndows, then we really want to speak with you.

What you’ll be doing

You will be working on the core compute platforms in the cloud and maintaining on-prem system in a hybrid environment. You will ensure that our software products delivered are always available and performant under exponential growth conditions. You’ll partner with fellow engineers to configure and maintain that can stand the test of scale and availability, while limiting operational overhead. You will drive efficiencies in systems and processes such as capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.

•  Maintain and operate infrastructure platforms to help improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency in all areas
• Manage end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Build automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Assist in building out the DevOps strategy for hosting and managing our data analytics platforms in AWS cloud 
• Ensure the integrity of the entire infrastructure by maintaining a proactive security posture against potential threats.  Work with security teams to patch and replace any elements deemed necessary by internal or 3rd party risk assessment
• Conducts and oversees complex projects working with peers and the efforts of external groups and vendors in the performance of assigned projects
•  Ability to take on-call responsibilities to remediate after hours issues and as needed, support local office users as an escalation for complex networking/application issues

What your background looks like

Associate degree, technical school or related degree training with technology application skills including Ansible, Linux, and basic scripting.

You are passionate about building and running distributed systems at scale in production. You understand the challenges and trade-offs to be made when building and deploying systems to production.

• Expertise in working with physical and virtual environments in Linux and Windows, infrastructure deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing.
• Solid understanding of Systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Cisco Network Device Administration (ASA Firewall, Catalyst Switch)
• Linux Administration (RedHat and CentOS preferred)
• Microsoft Windows Server Administration (2008 and newer)
• Database (MySQL/MS SQL/Mongo) exposure
• Experience with Cisco Call Manager and Networking hardware
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, information technology operations support, or in a similar field supporting technology infrastructure 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and it ensures that we live what we believe.