Lead DevOps Engineer

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What We'll Bring:

Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Developer in DevOps to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS or GCP, CI/CD tools, Kubernetes, and infrastructure monitoring.

What You'll Bring:

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of DevOps pipelines using Jenkins or Harness.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE) for high availability and performance.
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions for infrastructure and applications using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
• Develop and maintain tracing solutions using Tempo and OpenTelemetry (OTEL).
• Ensure container security through hardening and scanning tools.
• Set up and manage data streaming and processing solutions using Kafka, OpenSearch, and Apache NiFi.
• Provide strong production support and troubleshoot complex issues in a timely manner.
• Utilize Terraform to set up infrastructure from scratch and develop custom modules.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Monitor and analyze DevOps pipelines and practices, identifying areas for improvement, optimization, and automation to enhance launch/fallback consistency and accuracy.
• Design infrastructure architecture for new requirements.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.

Impact You'll Make:

• 7+ years of DevOps experience.
• Strong system-level knowledge and Linux experience.
• Proven experience with AWS or GCP.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Harness.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS/GKE).
• Proficiency in monitoring tools for infrastructure and applications.
• Experience with tracing tools like Tempo and OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with container hardening and scanning tools.
• Experience with Kafka, OpenSearch, and Apache NiFi is a plus.
• Strong production support experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code concepts and tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience in Git branching strategies and deployment models with zero downtime (Canary, Blue-Green, GitOps).
• Strong experience in vulnerability management, implementing SAST, DAST, and understanding CVE scores.
• Ability to set up complete CI/CD from scratch.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Cloud Logging Solutions).
• Experience working in Agile development practices (Scrum, Kanban).
• Shell scripting or Python automation is mandatory.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey information and mentor junior team members.
• Leadership experience managing through conflict at all levels of stakeholders.

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

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Lead, Development Ops