Lead Engineer, GCP DevOps Engineering

About the Role

TransUnion is looking for a senior DevOps leader to drive cloud-native engineering on Google Cloud Platform from its Pune office. The role focuses on building secure, scalable, and reliable platform capabilities for containerized applications, with a strong emphasis on automation, infrastructure design, and production operations.

TransUnion has spent over five decades building trust through data, identity, and analytics. The company helps organizations and consumers transact with greater confidence by combining broad data intelligence with its Information for Good purpose.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for cloud-native environments and deliver complex, large-scale solutions.
• Own CI/CD pipeline strategy and operations, with hands-on use of Harness for automated build and release workflows.
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, including integration with Harness infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
• Administer secret management and sensitive data workflows through HashiCorp Vault.
• Work with Artifactory to manage build artifacts and software packages.
• Apply application security practices and act on findings from CheckMarxOne or equivalent security tools.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads in production, especially GKE clusters and container platforms.
• Create, deploy, and support applications using Helm charts.
• Use Wiz for cloud-native application protection, container security policies, and incident handling.
• Design and troubleshoot GCP networking, load balancing, traffic routing, and related topologies.
• Support Cloudflare-based edge and traffic management setups.
• Handle GCP compute resources and Google Cloud Storage for structured and unstructured data needs.
• Design, optimize, and operate PostgreSQL databases in high-availability environments.
• Implement identity and access management solutions using Ping and/or Keycloak.
• Manage API lifecycle, governance, and security through Kong APIM.
• Build monitoring and observability solutions using GCP native tools, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Translate high-level architecture into detailed low-level technical designs.
• Mentor team members, strengthen engineering practices, and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Collaborate across functions to deliver secure, resilient, and business-aligned solutions.

Experience and Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technical leadership roles.
• Strong background in cloud-native and containerized environments.
• Proven record of delivering complex solutions at scale.
• Advanced expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP, and DevOps practices.
• Practical knowledge of security, observability, networking, IAM, API management, and database operations.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management abilities.

Additional Information

This position is based in Pune, India. The employer is seeking a graduate-level candidate for the role.