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Lead DevSecOps Engineer
Lead DevSecOps Engineer – Platform Engineering Team (Global Business Platforms, UK Regions)
Position Overview
We’re seeking a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to join our growing team at TransUnion. This role reports to Jordan Dinsdale, Senior Director of Platform Engineering and is responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, release governance, and stakeholder alignment of global business platforms deployed in UK regions.
As a bridge between regional and global teams, you’ll drive platform reliability, compliance, and continuous improvement through technical leadership and process excellence. This is a hands-on engineering role with cross-functional accountability, risk management, and a focus on solving operational challenges for mission-critical systems.
About the Role
The team oversees: CI/CD pipelines, dependent global platforms, community-focused consumer data systems, and service reliability architecture. You’ll work with scale, automation, and infrastructure-as-code at an enterprise level, providing a specialized expertise in onboarding, operations, and deployment for global business units. Your contributions will directly address the operational risks of critical information products, profit centres, and regional business commitments.
Key Responsibilities
1. Release & Deployment Management
- Lead the regional execution of all major, minor, and emergency deployments via automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-quality, on-time releases.
- Coordinate with Global Platform testers to oversee post-deployment validation, documenting and resolving issues efficiently.
- Deputise for the Operations and Technical Release Manager in managing the full Change Advisory Board (CAB) ticket lifecycle, ensuring traceability and compliance in deployments.
- Lead, manage, and prioritise Kanban workflows, driving effectiveness and continuous process improvement in release operations.
- Facilitate cross-functional coordination of development and change activities across UK region, aligning with business objectives and minimising disruption.
- Champion continuous improvement by analysing release outcomes, gathering stakeholder feedback, and implementing process refinements.
- Communicate release status and risks to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and proactive resolution.
2. Testing & Change Management
- Collaborate with Global Platform testers to coordinate regression testing of changes affecting UK-stakeholder platforms.
- Act as liaison between Global and UK teams, leading alignment in release-readiness, risk, and dependencies.
- Facilitate clear documentation and communication of test outcomes, risks, and cross-departmental dependencies.
- Drive process optimisation by pinpointing bottlenecks and best practices in testing and deployment coordination.
3. Platform Operations & Monitoring
- Provide technical leadership for the operations of UK-deployed Global Business Platforms, ensuring compliance with SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and service commitments.
- Oversee incident escalation, monitoring, and 24x7 out-of-hours support, ensuring rapid remediation to minimise disruption.
- Collaborate with Global Operations & Risk teams to analyse platform availability, performance, and capacity reports, supporting proactive capacity planning.
- Improve operational processes by identifying risks and implementing best practices for reliability and outbreak alerting.
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4. Incident & Problem Management
- Lead technical troubleshooting for regional issues with UK Global Business Platforms, accelerating service restoration.
- Serve as primary technical representative in 24/7 incident response with UK and Global teams via virtual ‘Incident Bridges’.
- Coordinate post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes, implement preventive actions, and establish long-term improvements in operational resilience.
- Document lessons learned for team knowledge retention and failure prevention.
5. Risk, Compliance & Governance
- Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks and potential deviations for UK Global Business Platforms.
- Support compliance and audit activities, ensuring adherence to global regulatory requirements and audit readiness.
- Alongside risk and compliance teams, address findings, implement corrective measures, and update processes accordingly.
- Stay apprised of evolving risks and regulatory changes, adapting controls and compliance frameworks to maintain operational stability.
Essential Knowledge & Experience
To excel in this role, you must demonstrate the following:
Technical Proficiencies
- Strong cloud-native and containerised architecture background, specifically Kubernetes (especially GKE), with proven experience in:
- Managing production-scale GKE clusters and container orchestration
- Advanced Helm skills for deploying and managing applications via Helm charts
- Deep expertise in GCP cloud networking, load balancing, traffic redistribution, and Google Cloud Storage
- Administration of Dataproc clusters
- Cloud Security & DevSecOps:
- Hands-on experience with Wiz for Cloud Native Application Protection, including policies and incident response
- Familiarity with Cloudflare
- Proficiency in managing container security and regulatory compliance policies
- Data & Database Management:
- Comprehensive experience with PostgreSQL in high-availability setups and Redis for session management
- Ability to design and support Kafka-based data streaming architectures
- Security & Identity Solutions:
- IAM expertise (Ping/Keycloak)
- Experience with Kong APIM for API lifecycle management and governance
- Observability & Monitoring:
- GCP Native Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry — creating and interpreting dashboard alerts
- CI/CD, IaC, & Automated Workflows:
- Advanced Harness CI/CD pipeline specialisation, including Terraform for infrastructure automation and Vault integration for secret management
- Application Security:
- Strong understanding of security best practices, integration with tools like CheckmarxOne
- Programming Knowledge:
- Working competency in HTML5, SAS, and Apple iOS ecosystems
Leadership & Collaboration
- Experience translating high-level architectural blueprints into detailed, executable technical specifications
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a track record of mentoring and inspiring cross-functional teams to elevate technical capabilities and cultural engagement
- Ability to act as a bridge between Technical and Business teams, ensuring alignment, patience, and achieving real-world impact through scalable solutions and best practices
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Preferred Qualifications
(priority given equally alongside professional experience):
- GCP Certifications (Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, or Database Engineer)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate proficiency
- Certified Kubernetes (KCNA, CKA) or Cloud Native certifications
About TransUnion
Workforce for Good
TransUnion is more than a business—it’s a platform for smart collaboration and purpose-driven responsibility. We empower our associates to grow the ways they want, encouraging individual voices and innovation toward a shared vision: Information for Good. TransUnion guides over 12,000 associates across 30+ countries, driving economic empowerment through trusted, actionable consumer insights. Our commitment is visible in citations, innovations, corporate CSR, and grassroots leadership.
Culture and Benefits
We foster transformation through:
- Key and flexible work arrangements supporting agile, life-enriching schedules.
- Professional development leading to career milestones, global recognition, and high-value challenges. Royalties and sponsorship programs are common for our top performers.
- A username policy crafted for collaborative transparency and shared responsibility for outcomes.
- Instrument clubhouses where kết Μεgains are celebrated and partnerships manifest across functional boundaries.
Impactful Purpose
Whether you join finance, data science, or platform engineering, you’ll work with brave tech innovators whose qualities are measured by outcomes, not titles. Together, our team is remaking what financial confidence looks like in dynamic times.
TransUnion Commitments
TransUnion respects the trust and privacy of consumers. Find the complete Job Applicant Privacy Notice at TransUnion Employee Site.
Important Notice
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- careers@transunion.com, or
- Calling (312) 258-1717;
avoid suspicious links or requests for personal information. We protect your data with integrity. If in doubt, contact TransUnion careers@transunion.com or (312) 258-1717 for verification.
Prociding Employment Impact
With over 6,900 million data records spanning 170 countries, TransUnion serves insurers, lenders, retailers, and employers.
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