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What We'll Bring:
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead our infrastructure and automation initiatives. This role demands a strong focus on infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms, particularly leveraging Puppet for configuration management, Kubernetes for orchestration, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as core technologies. This position is ideal for a leader passionate about automation, reliability, and scalability, with deep experience in Terraform and Jenkins, and a proven ability to guide teams in complex cloud environments.What You'll Bring:
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of robust DevOps strategies and roadmaps.
- Mentor, guide, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure using Terraform to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available solutions, with a primary focus on GCP.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize sophisticated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ensuring smooth, reliable, and efficient application deployments.
- Oversee and manage GCP resources and services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Cloud SQL, ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Drive the adoption, mastery, and standardization of configuration management tools, with a strong emphasis on Puppet.
- Establish and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for system health, performance, and security, utilizing cloud-native tools and third-party solutions.
- Collaborate closely with development, security, and operations teams to champion and improve software delivery processes and DevOps best practices.
- Automate complex and repetitive tasks, enhancing system efficiency and reliability through advanced scripting and configuration management.
- Define and enforce compliance with security policies and governance standards within the cloud infrastructure.
Impact You'll Make:
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or a related role, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership or mentoring capacity.
- Expert-level proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including its core services, architecture patterns, and best practices.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration, including deployment strategies, scaling, networking, and management (preferably GKE).
- Strong, demonstrable experience with Puppet/ Ansible for configuration management, automation, and infrastructure orchestration.
- Proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including module development, remote state management, and best practices.
- Extensive experience with Jenkins, including pipeline-as-code (Jenkinsfile), plugin management, and integration with version control systems (Git).
- Solid experience with containerization technologies (Docker).
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry).
- Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
- Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and cloud governance.
- Proven ability to lead technical discussions, make architectural decisions, and drive projects to completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
- GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Puppet Professional Certification, or other relevant industry certifications.
- Experience with other configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef) in addition to Puppet.
- Knowledge of other CI/CD tools and platforms beyond Jenkins (e.g., GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, CircleCI).
- Experience working in a fast-paced, Agile/Scrum development environment.
- Contributions to open-source DevOps projects or a strong public profile in the DevOps community.
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Lead Engineer, Software DevelopmentWhat 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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