Job Description

Who is Equifax?

Equifax is a leading global data, analytic and technology company, supporting customers across 24 countries. We have been serving the Australian and New Zealand markets for over 60 years. Through continuously adapting to our environment, not only have we remained a market leader, we drive and challenge ourselves to do better to help our customers live their financial best.

Our people are what makes us great at what we do - we see every member of our team as an integral piece of a jigsaw. We celebrate differences and recognise that each person brings with them unique talents and perspectives. We provide our people the support and flexibility to manage their work-life balance. At Equifax we genuinely care about our people and our ability to come together as #OneEquifax.

The perks of being an Equifax employee within the Technology team?

There are lots of perks of being an Equifax employee – we offer additional leave days as we recognise the importance of taking time out, whether that’s to catch up on some rest, celebrate a birthday, or give back to our community by volunteering. Our leadership team fosters a culture of ownership, they will lead, coach, mentor and listen. We support one another to feel confident to speak up and hold each other accountable to work with integrity.

We are a large and truly diverse team with a great representation of different cultures, ages and backgrounds. We celebrate this jigsaw of experience and believe that diversity of thoughts is the key to our success. We are supportive, energised and work collaboratively as a team to achieve our organisational outcomes. We are devoted to learning new technologies and work in a creative and innovative environment. Our team is afforded a unique work/life balance that we highly value.

As a team we are driving our exciting global technology transformation with a customer-centric cloud native approach. While security is at the forefront of our technology offerings, we are also reducing complexities in our systems to create better outcomes for our customers.

What You’ll Do

The Equifax Server and Storage team are committed to providing robust, available, efficient, and appropriate solutions to meet our internal and external customers’ needs. These solutions need to take advantage of new technologies and advancements, whilst still adhering to internal standards and policies.

As a Linux Systems Engineer, you will

Engage with business units and application teams to envision large scale systems/platforms and engineer that vision into an enterprise platform design.
Lead and direct technical deliverables for small teams of speialised engineers.
Support and maintain a specific platform or application including creation of new environments, software upgrades, patching and tuning.
Contribute in the creation and amendment of automation scripts and supporting documentation.
Provide software deployment services for non-production and production environments.
Assist with application and infrastructure performance monitoring and tuning.
Be actively involved in protecting the uptime and performance of the application.
Identify the root cause of the issues and work on implementing the required changes to fix them.

What Experience You Need

5+ years Linux (any distribution) server administration and support experience in a web facing production environment
Experience working in a virtual infrastructure environment
Good understanding of LAN/WAN topologies, general networking and web based security
Solid scripting skills in bash, python, ansible
Strong system security and automation skills
Strong commitment to change management and an understanding of ITIL framework
Have an understanding of the challenges of supporting a large 24/7 operartion

What Could Set You Apart