Senior SRE/Platform Engineer

Job summary

Equifax is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/Platform Engineer to design, build, and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role involves ensuring reliability and performance of internal and external services while adhering to engineering principles. The engineer will be responsible for overall system operation and solving a broad set of problems using various tools and approaches.

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Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of enterprise-scale experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps
• Proven mastery managing production-grade environments across AWS and Google Cloud (GCP), plus Azure experience specifically for cost governance
• 4+ years of hands-on experience provisioning and managing EKS and GKE clusters, including production upgrades, hardening, and namespace isolation
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform for multi-cloud resource provisioning, utilizing modular, reusable code and state management
• Experience building declarative workflows using ArgoCD or Flux, alongside automated pipelines that integrate security scanning, testing, and validation
• Proven track record of executing Canary deployments for high-traffic online services and Blue-Green deployments for large-scale batch/offline workloads
• Expertise in hybrid architectures (Transit Gateways, Shared VPCs, Direct Connect/Cloud Interconnect) combined with Kubernetes Network Policies and cloud IAM management
• Hands-on experience with DataDog APM for distributed tracing, dashboard creation, defining SLIs/SLOs, and configuring alerting logic to reduce MTTR
• Capability to lead cloud financial initiatives through workload rightsizing, strategic use of Spot/Preemptible instances, and building automated policy enforcement for cloud spend
• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architects to design systems across the "5 Pillars" (Well-Architected Framework)
• Highly prefers candidates with CKA (Required), AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, and FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP)
• Ability to treat infrastructure as a product to champion the developer experience, leveraging internal portals like Backstage
• Experience building custom CLI tools to streamline and simplify the development "inner loop"
• Possession of a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) credential or deep experience managing production runtime security
• Hands-on experience implementing cloud-native security and compliance using OPA (Open Policy Agent), Kyverno, or Falco
• Advanced proficiency with Istio, Linkerd, or Consul to govern complex service-to-service communication, mTLS, and traffic shifting
• Strong engineering skills in Go or Rust to build custom Kubernetes Operators and CRDs for tailored automation
• Experience executing proactive resilience testing and "game days" using Gremlin, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, or Chaos Mesh
• Capability to calculate the exact unit cost of a transaction or service to align cloud architecture with business ROI
• Experience managing GPU-accelerated workloads on Kubernetes (NVIDIA device plugins) and model pipelines via Vertex AI or SageMaker

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage hardened, secure, cost-optimized GKE and AWS EKS production clusters
• Standardize automated, cross-cloud infrastructure delivery utilizing Terraform
• Maintain a GitOps model via ArgoCD to match environment state directly to code repositories
• Execute Canary deployments (online, live-traffic validation) and Blue-Green deployments (offline/batch, zero-downtime, instant rollback)
• Architect complex topologies including VPCs, Shared VPCs, Peering, Transit Gateways, and Cloud Interconnect/Direct Connect
• Manage cross-cloud connectivity and enforce zero-trust network policies within Kubernetes
• Implement end-to-end distributed tracing and infrastructure monitoring using DataDog
• Build custom dashboards, monitors, and SLO/SLI alerts for deep visibility into application and infrastructure health
• Translate Enterprise Architects' high-level blueprints into automated, scalable, and secure technical implementations
• Drive AWS/GCP/Azure cost-saving (rightsizing, Spot/Preemptible instances, storage tiers) and automated governance (tagging, lifecycle policies, budget alerts)
• Leverage AI/ML frameworks to drive end-to-end automation across the infrastructure lifecycle, from automated IaC (Terraform) generation to predictive observability and self-healing systems with automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

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