Lead DevSecOps Engineer

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What We'll Bring:

We Are TransUnion:

TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

What You'll Bring:

We’re looking for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to join our growing team. 

Responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, release governance, and stakeholder alignment for the global platforms deployed in the UK regions. Acting as a bridge between regional and global teams, this role drives platform reliability, compliance, and continuous improvement through technical leadership and process excellence.
 

Day to Day You’ll Be:

Release & Deployment Management

• Lead the regional execution of all release types (major, minor, emergency) through automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring timely and high-quality deployments.

• Coordinate with Global Platform testers to oversee post-deployment validation, ensuring issues are identified, documented, and resolved efficiently.

• Support and deputise for the Operations and Technical Release Manager in managing the full CAB ticket lifecycle, maintaining robust deployment traceability and compliance.

• Collaborate with the Operations and Technical Release Manager to lead, manage, and prioritise Kanban workflows, driving effective tracking and continuous improvement of release processes.

• Facilitate cross-functional coordination of development and change activities across the UK region, ensuring alignment with business objectives and minimising disruption.

• Champion continuous improvement by analysing release outcomes, gathering feedback, and implementing process enhancements.

• Communicate release status and risks to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and proactive issue resolution.

Testing & Change Management

• Coordinate regression testing of changes to Global Business Platforms deployed in the UK region in collaboration with Global Platform testers, ensuring all updates impacting UK stakeholders are thoroughly validated and documented.

• Act as a key liaison to the Operations and Technical Release Manager, leading the coordination of future development, maintenance, and change activities between global and UK teams to ensure alignment, minimise risk, and support successful delivery.

• Facilitate effective communication between global and UK teams, ensuring that testing outcomes, risks, and dependencies are clearly documented and addressed.

• Drive continuous improvement in testing and coordination processes by gathering feedback, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing best practices.

Platform Operations & Monitoring

• Provide technical leadership for the operational management of Global Business Platforms deployed in the UK region, ensuring compliance with SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and other service commitments.

• Oversee incident management, monitoring, and escalation processes to maintain platform stability and minimise service disruptions, including participation in a 24x7 out-of-hours support rota.

• Collaborate with the Operations and Technical Release Manager to produce and analyse reports on platform availability, performance, and capacity, supporting data-driven decision-making and proactive capacity planning.

• Drive continuous improvement in operational processes by identifying risks, implementing best practices, and optimising platform reliability.

Incident & Problem Management

• Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting and resolving regional issues with the Global Business Platforms deployed in the UK region, ensuring rapid restoration of service and minimal business disruption.

• Technically lead critical and high-severity incident response, acting as the primary technical representative on incident bridges and ensuring effective communication and resolution.

• Coordinate and participate in post-incident reviews (post-mortems/PIRs) with global and regional teams, driving the identification and implementation of corrective actions.

• Analyse incident data to identify root causes, predict potential future issues, and implement preventative controls, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational resilience.

• Document incident outcomes and share lessons learned to enhance team knowledge and prevent recurrence.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Lead the identification, assessment, documentation, and management of risks and issues related to Global Business Platforms deployed in the UK region, ensuring proactive mitigation and platform stability.

• Oversee and support compliance and audit activities for the Global Business Platforms deployed in the UK region, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and audit readiness.

• Collaborate with risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders to address findings, implement corrective actions, and continuously improve risk and compliance processes.

• Monitor evolving risks and regulatory changes, adapting controls and processes to maintain ongoing compliance and operational resilience.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Impact You'll Make:

What’s 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 there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t 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 we’ve 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, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.com

Interview & Hiring Process:
Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies.  If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

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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

Advisor, Software Development