Junior DevOps Engineer

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What We'll Bring:

Transunion is looking for highly motivated DevOps team members who seek to grow their DevOps skills to the next level. Our ideal candidate will possess a basic knowledge of successful CI/CD implementations for containerized deployments and have a deep knowledge of IaC approaches and technologies in cloud environments. Ability to learn and learn to apply new technologies quickly is essential. As the candidate will be responsible for provisioning, monitoring and maintaining Transunion commercial services, successful candidates require experience in systems engineering and cloud automation, are critical thinkers, and scripters with coding skills that will be used to automate repeatable tasks. Additionally, candidates must be highly organized with strong communication skills and a mindset for continuous improvement.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

What You'll Bring:

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be building and monitoring our environments and work closely with our development team to ensure systems are running smoothly, developers are never doing repetitive tasks and that the infrastructure is kept up to date as the stack evolves. As processes change and the company grows, the DevOps engineer automates as much as possible to accelerate work, including provisioning, monitoring, data processes, and continuous delivery elements. With your contribution, platforms and applications are scalable and autonomous, releases go live with minimum downtime and platforms are secure.

Job Duties

• Responsible for the creation, configuration and delivery of cloud infrastructure environments using automation best practices and a proactive strategy.
• Responsible for automating the infrastructure build in cloud environments.
• Responsible for automation and monitoring of operational processes.
• Responsible for maintaining, monitoring production and non-production systems, ensuring platforms perform at maximum efficiency and security.
• Automate the full SDLC lifecycle process for application and infrastructure as code workloads.
• Automate business continuity/disaster recovery.
• Design and set up a continuous build platform to accelerate software development and production processes.
• Participate in rotational 12x7 on call.
• Perform root cause analysis for service performance incidents.

Impact You'll Make:

Qualifications/Education

• Good knowledge of Linux operating systems (RHEL/CentOS/Debian) and its fundamentals.
• Overall, 1+ years operating within Linux/Unix environments with at least 1 year of SRE/DevOps production operation in large scale, Internet facing infrastructure.
• AWS/GCP Certification or Solution Architecture Certification are a plus.
• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure solutions in AWS or GCP.
• Experience in continuous integration, continuous deployment.
• Experience in multiple scripting languages (e.g., Python, GoLang, Bash).
• Experience with Jenkins files, Groovy, GoLang is a plus.
• Experience in support and deploying containerized workloads (e.g., EKS, GKE, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes deployments via GitOps model using Flux (fluxcd.io) is preferred.
• Basic cloud automation experience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Experience in cloud monitoring and management systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools Jenkins, Git, Jira.
• Knowledge of management tools Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, StackDriver is a plus.
• Experience in application performance monitoring, and alerting systems is a plus.
• Experience in working in/with Agile processes (Scaled Agile Framework/SAFe preferred) and tools (preferably Jira) with ability to synthesize user requirements as proper user stories is a plus.
• Experience in working in/with ITSM processes (incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management) and tools (preferably Jira JSM) is a plus.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to provide “thinking-outside-the-box” solutions.
• Good understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment.
• Ability to multitask, work well under pressure and prioritize work against competing deadlines and changing business priorities.
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title

Assoc Developer, Development Ops