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What We'll Bring:

As a member of the Global Technology practice, you will play a critical role in ensuring that AWS hosted systems are tuned and built to scale with proper controls in place to ensure high availability.

Your role will entail installing and configuring applications, automating all manual steps to ensure that deployments are repeatable, reliable and rapid. The role will not just see you provide this as an initial service but you will then provide the means to which the development function can self serve to perform these installations via performant automated pipelines.
Along the way, you will be required to proactively assist Product Delivery teams to troubleshoot issues within Route to Live environments, provide consultancy in the area of Route to Live pipelines and their ongoing maintenance.
As solutions develop you will assist development teams to ensure the operability of those solutions, often providing a bridge between development and operational teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Install, configure, automate and maintain a range of cloud services across a variety of environments.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Dev & Test engineers to optimise architecture and design approaches.
• Establish consistent standards for ensuring operability and maintainability of solutions.
• Design, implement and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to automate Software Delivery Processes in a multi cloud environment.
• Work with teams to focus on making deployments more repeatable, reliable and rapid, both directly to provide skills and also as means of upskilling the teams.
• Consult with product delivery teams to ensure that their CI/CD pipelines conform to best practices, governance standards and regulatory requirements.
• Develop detailed guidelines, standards, and processes around deployment methods and tooling.
• Champion the vision and purpose of the System Build team in Product and Operational Teams.
• Maintain strong relationships with, and champion the views of, live operations teams, helping support operational and non-functional requirements into TransUnion delivery teams.
• Develop guidelines, standards, and processes around deployment methods and tooling.
• Establish consistent standards for ensuring High Availability and Fault Tolerant systems.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes via automation and implement.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
• Coach and mentor System Build Engineers who are junior to yourself.
• Contribute to and evangelise community best practices.
• Lead on System Build related Continuous Improvement Initiatives.
• Be self-starting and able to plan and complete tasks to provided deadlines.
• Manage own workload.

Impact You'll Make:

• 7 Years experience designing, implementing and rolling out AWS based technologies at scale.
• 7 Years practical experience with IaC as a concept.
  • It is an advantage to have experience using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning, with proven ability to update and maintain existing IaC scripts.
• 5 Years experience with at least 2 of the following tools
  • BitBucket including but not limited to:
    • Basic Git operations (clone, branch, merge)
    • Using \ responding to pull requests
    • Webhooks (integration with Jenkins)
  • Jenkins including but not limited to:
    • Running\understanding groovy pipelines
    • Understand how to edit Jenkins file to initiate deployments
  • Ansible Tower including but not limited to.
    • Write playbooks (YAML)
    • Write\integrate scripts (tasks)
    • Utilise tags in inventories to scope playbooks
• 5 Years hands on experience with Kubernetes
  • Excellent overall knowledge of Kubernetes,
  • Network policies \ Calico,
  • Using Kubectl and Fluxctl to diagnose issues,
  • Operating Flux to deploy changes to K8s clusters.
• Proficient Powershell or Bash scripting.
• Good technical understanding of TFS/Azure DevOps Server including ADO release pipelines.
• Familiarity with use of source control including branching, workflow, peer reviews etc.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies.
• Good background in software development, build or release engineering. 
• Excellent troubleshooting/fault resolution skills, with an ability to recognise the root cause of any problems.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Engineer, Development Ops