IT Network Manager

TransUnion; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension plan

Private health care

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

TransUnion is seeking a Manager II, Infrastructure Engineering and Provisioning in the UK to lead a network engineering team, align priorities with business goals, and drive secure, scalable network services across on-premises, data centre, and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, collaboration with architects and security teams, and adoption of automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve service reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing network engineering teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and team development skills to support technical and professional growth.
• Broad understanding of networking technologies, including routing, switching, firewalls, WAN, and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and support a team of network engineers, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture.
• Set clear priorities aligned to business and technology goals, managing team capacity and workload.
• Enable the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure network services across enterprise, data centre, and cloud environments.
• Drive adoption of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices to improve repeatability and operational readiness.
• Oversee vendor relationships, project delivery, documentation, reporting, and disaster recovery planning.

Skills

People leadership

Coaching

Team development

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Cloud networking

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Azure

GCP

Job description

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice Team Overview

The team responsible for managing change, transformation, and automation across the UK network infrastructure. The team sits within Infrastructure Services and plays a key role in delivering secure, resilient, and scalable network services that support TransUnion’s technology and business operations. This role reports into the Senior Manager, Systems Engineering and Programming. 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.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and support a team of network engineers, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture.
• Set clear priorities aligned to business and technology goals, managing team capacity, demand, workload planning, and resource allocation.
• Enable the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure network services across enterprise, data centre, and cloud environments.
• Drive the adoption of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices to improve consistency, repeatability, and operational readiness.
• Champion a “you build it, you run it” model, supporting stronger service ownership and accountability across delivery teams.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high-impact network incidents, ensuring effective coordination, resolution, and follow-up.
• Work closely with architects, SMEs, security, infrastructure, development, and operations teams to ensure services align with standards, roadmaps, and governance requirements.
• Support continuous improvement in service reliability, resilience, monitoring, risk management, and operational excellence.
• Oversee vendor relationships, network-related project delivery, documentation, reporting, and disaster recovery planning.

Required Knowledge And Experiences

• Experience leading and developing network engineering teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and team development skills, with the ability to support both technical and professional growth.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, team capacity, demand planning, and sustainable delivery.
• Broad understanding of networking technologies, including routing, switching, firewalls, WAN, and cloud networking.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of enterprise networking, data centre networking, WAN, firewalls, and cloud networking.
• Understanding of network security controls, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, access control, and zero-trust principles.
• Experience with operational practices including incident, problem, change, monitoring, availability, and capacity management.
• Familiarity with network automation and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience working in DevOps or product-aligned environments
• Familiarity with cloud networking (Azure / GCP)
• Understanding of network automation and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience in regulated environments

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 and bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care and 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 or desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that stop you from 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.

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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