Senior DevOps Database Engineer

TransUnion; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join TransUnion as a Senior DevOps Database Engineer, where you will play a critical role in optimizing database platforms and automating deployments. You will work alongside Product Delivery teams to ensure the highest availability and security of data while leveraging your extensive experience in SQL Server and DevOps practices. The role offers flexibility, excellent benefits, and the chance to further develop your skills in a supportive environment.

Benefits

26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays

Global paid wellness days off

Generous pension scheme

Private health care benefits

Access to mindfulness tools and fitness programs

Qualifications

• Held a DBA role for five or more years working with SQL Server.
• Advanced use of T-SQL, automation technologies, and troubleshooting skills required.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and working with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain optimised and highly available database platforms.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Troubleshoot data issues and provide consultancy for data management.

Skills

SQL Server

T-SQL

DevOps

Automation

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

DBA role for 5 or more years

Experience with SQL Server migrations

Tools

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy

PowerShell

Job description

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice

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 Senior DevOps Database Engineer to join our growing Development Operations team.

Working alongside and collaborating with Product Delivery teams on a daily basis you will be focused on helping to deliver new and key capabilities into the business. You will play a critical role in ensuring that systems are tuned and built to scale with proper controls in place to ensure high availability.

Your role will entail building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms, automating all manual steps to ensure that deployments are repeatable, reliable and rapid. The role will not just see you provide this as an initial service, but you will then provide the means to which the development function can self serve to perform these installations via performant automated pipelines. Along the way, you will be required to proactively lead or assist Product Delivery teams to troubleshoot issues within Route to Live environments, provide consultancy in the area of Route to Live pipelines and their ongoing maintenance plus ensuring that teams understand the critical importance of oversight in how data is managed and secured. As solutions develop you will assist development teams ensure the operability of those solutions often providing a bridge between development and operational teams.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Building and maintaining optimised and highly available database platforms.
• Building and continuously improving CI/CD Pipelines to ensure databases are deployed and configured using automation technologies.
• Establish consistent standards for ensuring High Availability and Fault Tolerant systems.
• Identify and execute on opportunities for automating relevant processes.
• Troubleshooting data issues, providing consultancy in the area of data growth and ongoing maintenance.
• Proof of Concept work to enhance and support the work of the System Build team.
• Contribute to and evangelise community best practices.
• Establish yourself as the Subject Matter Expert for the Product area you are embedded within.
• Ensuring that systems are compliant (SOX, PCI etc.).
• Manage own workload.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Held a DBA role for five or more years working with SQL Server (2017, 2019, 2022)
• Experience with SQL Server migrations and upgrades.
• Advanced use of T-SQL (stored procedures, SQL Agent Jobs, Deployment automation)
• Experience of High Availability / Disaster Recovery technologies (Mirroring, Always On Availability Groups)
• Experience of Replication (especially transactional with centralised distribution)
• Proven experience of working with sensitive data in a secure manner.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies
• Familiarity with use of source control, especially around database projects (including branching, workflow, peer reviews etc.)
• Good technical understanding of TFS/Azure DevOps Server and Octopus Deploy.
• Basic level of PowerShell scripting.
• Excellent troubleshooting/fault resolution skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and embrace industry developments and practices from both a Development and Operations background.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Held a DBA role for two or more years working with a range of On-Prem / Azure hosted Database technologies (Azure SQL Database / Managed Instance)
• Good knowledge of OLAP and SSIS.
• Familiarity with either Octopus Deploy, TFS/Azure DevOps Server.
• Monitoring toolsets (Splunk, Foglight etc.)
• Agile, Scrum, Kanban processes and methodologies
• Advanced PowerShell

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 [e-mail]

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.

#LI-Hybrid

Find out more about Life At TU UK:
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/life/

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

Sr Engineer, Development Ops