Senior Data Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom TransUnion Full time

Senior Data Platform Engineer page is loaded Senior Data Platform Engineer Apply locations Leeds, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted 5 Days Ago job requisition id 19028213

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What We'll Bring:

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 Data Platform Engineer to join our growing Data Engineering & Analytics team. You will be based at our Leeds office and work in a hybrid model – 2 days per week working from office. In this fast-paced role you’ll work with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to enable Data Analytics across the organization. This exciting role will offer a host of development opportunities as part of a growing global business.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

  • Core Linux administration – admin & manage services, applications, storage, infrastructure, networking

  • Work on support activities such as patches, upgrades of POSIT (R-Studio)

  • Monitor, Support, Scale & Optimize R-Studio clusters as needed.

  • Administer & Support Jupyter Lab on Posit Workbench 

  • Manage, administer & deploy core platform services on REHL (e.g. Apache Airflow, R-Studio, Jupyter Lab)

  • Work directly with cross functional data engineering and data science teams

  • Support deployment and administration of Big Data tools (such as Hive, Spark, HDFS)

  • Work with industry standard tools such as Ansible to keep different environments in a consistent state.

  • Debug and resolve networking issue, troubleshoot connectivity and performance problems

  • Administration of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Docker

  • Work with Ops tools such as Splunk

  • Setup and administer logging solution (e.g. based on Graylog or similar)

  • Deploying new development tools, infrastructure, and Networking as needed

  • Work with Data Engineering on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.

Essential Skills & Experience:

  • Strong Linux (RHEL) knowledge

  • 5+ years of experience as a Platform / DevOps Engineer on Data/Analytics projects

  • Experience with CICD tools – e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes

  • Experience with package management tools e.g. Artifactory, Nix (NixOS)

  • Experience with GIT

  • Strong Shell scripting skills

  • Experience with Big Data Ecosystems

  • Experience with a high-level programming language such as Python

  • Experience with Cloud environment is an advantage.

  • Excellent communication skills and problem-solving attitude.

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?

  • At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.

  • 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:

We know that you may not possess every aspect of the essential and/or desirable skills listed above but if there’s something you can’t tick off, don’t let that put you off applying as we could explore training for you. In fact, we have well defined career paths with a variety of learning tools such as Linux Academy, & LinkedIn learning available from day one.

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.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend an interview with us please make us aware of this on your application.

TransUnion Job Title

Specialist IV, Infrastructure Engineering and Provisioning

TransUnion is a global information and insights company with over 12,000 associates operating in more than 30 countries. We make trust possible by ensuring each person is reliably represented in the marketplace.

We do this with a Tru picture of each person: an actionable view of consumers, stewarded with care.

Through our acquisitions and technology investments we have developed innovative solutions that extend beyond our strong foundation in core credit into areas such as marketing, fraud, risk and advanced analytics.

As a result, consumers and businesses can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good — and it leads to economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for millions of people around the world.

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