Senior Cloud Optimization Engineer

Company: Equifax
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America Full time J00110784 Who is Equifax?-- Equifax is a global data, analytics, and technology company. We believe knowledge drives progress. We blend unique data, analytics and technology with a passion for serving customers globally, to create insights to power the decisions that move people forward. ---We serve as a consumer advocate, steward of financial literacy, and champion of economic advancement.-- As an innovative global company that enables access to credit, we're part of breakthrough collaborations and innovations that address complex social challenges such as social welfare, community relations and financial education for underprivileged youth. We establish relationships that create economically healthy communities. We help individuals gain financial independence by increasing access to capital for small businesses. And we provide young adults entering college or university with financial education tools.-- Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our people makes a difference in our business. We are Powering the World with Knowledge and looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.-- The Perks of being an Equifax Employee?

• We offer excellent compensation packages with high-reaching market salaries, 401k matching, along with the works: comprehensive healthcare packages, schedule flexibility, collaborative work spaces, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential
• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax-- What You'll Do
  • You will be part of strong multi-cloud specialization team, and work across global enterprise teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure deployed using cost-aware architecture and operating in a cost effective manner
  • Senior Technical multi-cloud (GCP, AWS, and Azure) versatile SRE/Architect/Software Engineering role to look at the data available, mine the data, and look for cost optimization opportunities and work with respective teams educate them to optimize the spend
  • Provide Cost Visibility using cost control and reporting tools such as Cloudability, Cloud health, Cloud native budget and alerting, AWS Billing and Cost Explorer, GCP Billing, etc
  • Knowledgeable in billing and metering of cloud platforms
  • Experience with Cloud compute, storage, cloud native databases, and cloud security components
  • Participate in deep architectural, service selection discussions to understand and help product teams make the most cost-efficient choices
  • Monitor cloud cost and resource utilization, provide optimization recommendations (Rightsize, Elasticity, Pricing models)
  • Provide guidance on deploying minimum foot-print and scale horizontally to balance performance/cost of cloud capacity resources
  • Experience with infrastructure automate/deploy/run such as Virtual Machines, Containers, Kubernetes, storage, network, virtualization, database, middleware, and various operating systems
  • Define and Enforce Tagging Strategies, enable team to implement resource level tagging.
  • Develop effective report/dashboards to easily identify the cloud billing and resource utilizations metrics to maintain strong control on cloud spend.
  • Experience with GCP billing, AWS cost explorer, billing analysis and various cost optimization techniques
  • Good understanding on Savings/Discount plans, Committed Use Discounts, Reserved Instances, chargeback reporting, show back, spend control.
  • You have the ability to operate across a broad and complex business unit with multiple stakeholders
  • You have an understanding of the key aspects of finance especially as related to Technology. Specifically including total cost of ownership and value
  • You are a self-starter, highly motivated, and have a real passion for actively learning and researching new methods of work and new technology
  • You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders.Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in a computers or related technical fields
    • 5+ years of experience infrastructure/application build/deployment and automation
    • 2+ years of experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
    • Excellent organizational and prioritization skills
    • Cloud certification is a plus (AWS/GCP/Azure) Success Attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?
      • Accountability
      • Bravery
      • Curiosity
      • Collaboration
      • Think and act differently
      • Trust
      • Ownership
      • Decide-Execute-Ship We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don't delay, apply today - we're looking for you! #L1-KB1Primary Location:USA-Atlanta JV WhiteFunction:Function - Tech Engineering and Service OpsSchedule:Full time Email this job to: Your name For US Applicants--
        If you'd like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please view our EEO Policy Statement , EEO is the Law Declarations , and Nondiscrimination Provision .--
        If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or applicant for employment, please contact us by sending an email to-- GTA@equifax.com . In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting and a description of the position for which you are applying.--
        Equifax participates in E-Verify and Right to Work (English and Spanish).-- Get tailored job recommendations based on your interests. Share this Opportunity What we do, where we are. Equifax is a global data, analytics, and technology company. We believe knowledge drives progress. We blend unique data, analytics, and technology with a passion for serving customers globally, to create insights that power decisions to move people forward.
        
        Headquartered in Atlanta, Equifax operates or has investments in 24 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. It is a member of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500-- Index, and its common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol EFX. Equifax employs approximately 11,000 employees worldwide.
        
        Equifax is an Equal Opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, protected veteran status, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law. Equifax and the Equifax marks used herein are trademarks of Equifax Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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