Lead Dev Ops Engineer

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What We'll Bring:

What You'll Bring:

We’re looking for a Lead Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing team. 

Day to Day You’ll Be:

Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Define and implement the strategic roadmap for DevOps initiatives, ensuring alignment with group-wide infrastructure and tools.

• Advocate for and lead the adoption of the TransUnion toolbox, identifying gaps and driving enhancements to meet specific organisational requirements.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across development, operations, and security teams to align infrastructure strategy with business goals.

Infrastructure & Operations: 

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of our infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

• Support, monitor, and enhance the live infrastructure and platform solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.

• Plan and execute the integration of our current infrastructure into TransUnion's group-wide cloud platform while minimising disruptions.

• Lead the migration of infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a smooth transition and leveraging GCP services effectively. 

• Recommend changes to improve infrastructure, working practices, and operational efficiency.

DevOps & Security:

• Establish and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to streamline deployment processes.

• Lead initiatives to maintain and enhance our security posture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and frameworks (e.g., SOC-2, ISO 27001).

• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure outages and incidents, ensuring timely resolution and root cause analysis.

Documentation & Best Practices:

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and scalability.

• Promote and implement DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices across the organisation.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Leadership:

• Proven experience leading a team of DevOps or Infrastructure Engineers, with strong coaching and mentoring skills.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical contributions.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong Linux systems administration experience, including firewalls and hardening

• Expertise in Docker and container orchestration.

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform.

• Experience with network design, administration, and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Node.js, PHP).

• Experience with version control systems, ideally Git.

• Web server configuration (Apache, Nginx).

• Database management (MySQL, MongoDB), including high availability and backup solutions.

• Hands-on experience managing cloud providers, with significant experience in AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Familiarity with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and IAM. 

• Familiarity with configuration management and IT automation tools.

• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles.

Soft Skills:

• Self-motivated, highly organised, and capable of driving initiatives from concept to delivery.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with serverless infrastructure (e.g., AWS Fargate, Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions).

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you? 

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business. 

As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with: 

• 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service) 

• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday 

• A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan 

• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools 

• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart 

TransUnion – a place to grow:  

If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful. 

We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together 

Flexibility at TU: 

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you. 

Additional support: 

At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.com 

Interview & Hiring Process: 

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this. 

 
We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies.  If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance. 

Find out more about Life At TU UK: 

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/life/ 

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