Global Platform Lead

What Youll Bring:

Were looking for a Global Platform Lead to join our growing team.

Day to Day Youll Be:

Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead a cross-functional team of Engineers fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement.
• Define and implement the strategic roadmap for Global Platform initiatives ensuring alignment with group-wide infrastructure and tools.
• Collaboratewith stakeholders across Development DevOps Product and security teams to align platform strategy with business and territory goals.
• Lead the strategic planning for the required support and monitoring of platform solutions to ensure high availability and performance in all territories.
• Infrastructure & Operations:
• Oversee the design and implementation of territory-specific platform requirements.
• Plan and execute the integration of our current infrastructure into TransUnions group-wide cloud platform while minimising disruptions.
• Recommend changes to improve infrastructure working practices and operational efficiency for global expansion.

DevOps & Security:

• Establish and maintain territory-specific requirements for robust CI/CD pipelines collaborating closely with DevOps to ensure the streamlining of deployment processes.
• Lead initiatives to maintain and enhance our global 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:

• 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.
• 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 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.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

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

Impact Youll Make:

Whats 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 theres something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you cant quite tick off dont 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 weve 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 dont let this stop you from applying. Let us know if youre looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.