Lead DevSecOps and Release Engineer

About the Company

TransUnion has spent more than 50 years helping build trust in transactions by using deep expertise in data, identity, fraud, marketing, and analytics. The organization combines online, offline, public, and proprietary information to create a comprehensive view of each consumer and enable confident business decisions. Its purpose is to deliver Information for Good®.

Role Overview

This position leads DevSecOps, release governance, and operational coordination for Global Business Platforms supporting the UK region. The role serves as a link between regional and global teams, with responsibility for platform reliability, compliance, process discipline, and continuous improvement.

Release and Deployment Management

• Own the regional execution of major, minor, and emergency releases through automated CI/CD workflows, making sure deployments are timely and of high quality.
• Work with global testers to manage post-release verification and ensure defects are captured, tracked, and closed efficiently.
• Back up the Operations and Technical Release Manager in running the CAB ticket process end to end, with strong deployment traceability and compliance.
• Partner with the Operations and Technical Release Manager to run Kanban planning, prioritisation, and continuous process improvement.
• Coordinate development and change activities across the UK region so business goals are met with minimal disruption.
• Improve release performance by reviewing outcomes, collecting feedback, and introducing process enhancements.
• Share release progress, risks, and issues with stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.

Testing and Change Coordination

• Coordinate regression testing for changes affecting UK-hosted Global Business Platforms alongside global testers.
• Act as a central contact for coordinating upcoming development, maintenance, and change work between global and UK teams.
• Ensure testing results, risks, and dependencies are documented and communicated effectively.
• Continuously improve testing and coordination practices by removing bottlenecks and adopting better ways of working.

Platform Operations and Monitoring

• Provide technical leadership for day-to-day platform operations while meeting SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and other service commitments.
• Oversee incident handling, monitoring, and escalation to protect platform stability and reduce service interruptions.
• Participate in a 24x7 out-of-hours support rota.
• Work with the Operations and Technical Release Manager to prepare and analyse availability, performance, and capacity reports.
• Strengthen operational resilience by identifying risks and improving reliability practices.

Incident and Problem Management

• Lead technical troubleshooting for regional issues and restore service quickly with minimal business impact.
• Act as the main technical contact during critical and high-severity incidents.
• Join and coordinate post-incident reviews with global and regional stakeholders, ensuring corrective actions are defined and tracked.
• Review incident trends to identify root causes, reduce future risk, and add preventative controls.
• Document incident learnings and share them to improve team capability and prevent repeat issues.

Risk, Compliance, and Governance

• Identify, evaluate, document, and manage risks and issues affecting UK-region platform operations.
• Support compliance and audit activities and help ensure readiness for regulatory review.
• Work with risk, compliance, and audit teams to close findings and strengthen controls.
• Track regulatory changes and adapt processes to maintain compliance and operational resilience.

Experience and Technical Background

The role calls for around 10 years of overall experience, including more than 5 years in technical leadership roles within cloud-native, container-based environments. Strong hands-on expertise is expected across Kubernetes and GKE, Helm, Wiz, GCP networking, Cloudflare, GCP compute, GCS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Dataproc, Ping and/or Keycloak IAM, Kong APIM, GCP-native observability tools, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Harness CI/CD, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Redis, and application security tooling such as CheckMarxOne.

Leadership and Collaboration

The position also requires the ability to convert high-level architecture into detailed low-level designs, alongside strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills. Success in the role depends on working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions aligned to business needs.

Eligibility

Any graduate can apply for this role.