Equifax - Observability Engineer/Specialist - ELK Stack

What youll do :

- Develop and maintain observability using AWS/GCP tools and Datadog.

- Keep monitoring tool software currency up to date across Cloud/Legacy landscape.

- Keep Engineering updated with logging/tracing standards.

- Good knowledge of Splunk or other logging tools like ELK stack.

- Have good understanding of Application Performance Management.

- Implement best practices for observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing.

- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

- Automate observability processes and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.

- Analyze and interpret monitoring data to provide actionable insights and recommendations.

- Stay updated with the latest advancements in GCP and Datadog to continuously improve our

observability capabilities.

- Good knowledge of linux/windows environment.

- Work in Scaled Agile Framework.

- Solve problems and triage complex distributed architecture service maps.

- On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR.

- Lead availability blameless postmortem and own the call to action to remediate recurrences.

What Experience You Need :

- 7-10 years experience with monitoring tools Google/AWS Cloud Monitoring, Appdynamics, DataDog, Splunk , Elastic Search or similar.

- 7+ years experience in system support, coding or operations.

- Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux environments.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

- Provide step-by-step technical help, both written and verbal.

- Experience in languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go JavaScript and/or node.js.

- Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases.

- System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using

Terraform, Chef, Ansibleand/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

- Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.

- Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.

What Could Set You Apart :

- Experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

- Passion for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible.

- Youve built software or maintained systems in a highly secure, regulated or compliant industry.

- Experience and passion for working within a DevOps culture and as part of a team.

- Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.