Job Description
Work that matters – what you’ll be doing
We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Experian Data Quality team where you will be working on cutting edge products within our Aperture suite (Data Studio and Data Governance).
This role has aspects of both reliability engineering (SRE) and test engineering (SDET). It is ideally suited to someone looking to take on some aspects of a technical leadership role for the first time, as a specialist in their field, and influencing their colleagues in the core delivery teams.
Key responsibilities include extending and improving our non-functional test infrastructure (e.g. performance, load, stress and chaos test frameworks), working in collaboration with our Architects, Development teams, and DevOps specialists to use results of these tests to help prioritize and implement reliability improvements for our customers.
You will work closely with our Director of Engineering, Test Automation Lead, and wider QA team to shape our testing and quality strategy, developing and improving release pipelines to enable ever faster and more reliable deployments to production.
What you’ll need to bring to the role & Experian
1. Professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
2. Programming skills are essential, including experience of object-oriented design. We use Java and Typescript, experience in these languages is an advantage but not essential.
3. Good understanding of key architectural principles such as high availability, disaster recovery and platform resiliency.
4. Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
5. Experience of Containerisation with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
6. Scripting and IaC automation skills, experience working with CloudFormation desirable.