Bristlecone - Senior Cloud Engineer

Title:  Sr Cloud Engineer, ESS Ascend Platform

About the Role:

Our ESS Ascend Platform team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure and observability for Experian Software Solutions (ESS) division. We are seeking a Sr Cloud Engineer for our team to help us continuously improve how we build, monitor, secure, and run our rapidly growing cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On this team, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in coding, system design thinking, and analytical skills to provide reliable cloud infrastructure and observability tools for the rest of the product development teams.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build our platforms, systems, and infrastructure using your solid experience  in coding.

• Work closely with product development teams, provide hands-on engagement to develop, direct and implement reliable, secured and cost-effective cloud solutions.

• Participate with a cross department-func onal team to establish a cloud operational governance framework.

• It often involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with the platform services.

What You'll Need To Succeed

Must Have Skills:

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience with 3 – 5+ years in Cloud engineering.

• Experience in Linux, security, networking, containerization, and cloud design patterns.

• Exper se to develop and maintaining infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform to automate provisioning and deployment processes.

• Extensive experience with AWS IAM, EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Networking, Security, CI/CD, and config management tools.

• Deep understanding of Container orchestration on fundamentals and architecture.

• Experience in at least one scripting language - Shell, Python, etc.

• Experience in implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards. This includes configuring IAM policies, VPC se ngs, encryption, and monitoring solu ons.

• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, application architects and engineering managers to design and implement solutions and align on design decisions.

• Guide the team through solving complex infrastructure challenges.

• Strong written and verbal communica on skills.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.

• Experience with observability solutions.

Nice to have skills:

• Knowledge and working experience in implementing one or more Observability platforms like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, etc. to measure telemetry data like logs, metrics and traces.

• Experience with Big Data platforms, like AWS EMR, Databricks, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc.

About Company

Bristlecone is the industry’s largest pure-play supply chain service provider. As the trusted partner for AI-first supply chain transformations, we specialize in empowering customers with tech-enabled solutions for planning, sourcing, and fulfillment. Through our consulting, platforms, and supply chain build and enablement expertise, we help Global 2000 organizations in the life sciences, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, and high-tech industries drive visibility, resiliency, and efficiency across their supply chain. Guided by a consulting-led approach, we serve as strategic partners to customers throughout their supply chain transformation journey. With comprehensive advisory and implementation capabilities, we offer high-value consulting spanning domains, processes, and change management, ensuring tailored solutions that drive meaningful outcomes for each customer. Bristlecone is headquartered in San Jose, California, with locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. It is part of the Mahindra Group. Learn more at www.bristlecone.com