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What We'll Bring:
At TransUnion, we strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver’s seat of their professional development, while having access to help along the way. We encourage everyone to pursue passions and take ownership of their careers. With the support of colleagues and mentors, our associates are given the tools needed to get where they want to go. Regardless of job titles, our associates have the opportunity to learn new things and be a leader every day.Come be a part of our team – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.
We’re looking for a talented and proactive Data Base Administrator Developer to join our growing engineering team.
What You'll Bring:
We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team.
Day to Day You’ll Be:
Infrastructure & Operations:
Participate in 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.
Help plan and execute the integration of our current infrastructure into TransUnion's group-wide cloud platform while minimising disruptions.
Participate in the migration of infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a smooth transition and leveraging GCP services effectively.
DevOps & Security:
Maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to streamline deployment processes.
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:
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:
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
Should you not have heard from us within 3 weeks from applying, please regard your application as unsuccessful.
Please note it is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day-to-day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment. You can be based anywhere in South Africa that has fibre but will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.
A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required, should you be successful, you will need to upgrade your line or install fibre in order to work effectively.
Please note that being a credit bureau, some positions require a clear credit record.
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.
We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person.
This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.
Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve.
We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Why Work With Us
Our culture is welcoming, energetic and innovative. There’s an overall synergy that flows throughout TransUnion, creating a sense of unity in knowing that we’re all working to achieve the same overall goal. We’re dedicated to providing opportunities for our people to get involved and stay connected with their colleagues across the globe.
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