As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at TransUnion’s DevOps Director-led team, you will serve as a senior technical leader driving reliability strategy and elevating engineering standards. You’ll lead high-risk initiatives, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to architectural decisions across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools like Datadog and Prometheus. Your daily tasks include capacity planning, load testing, security improvements, and incident response leadership. Deep expertise in Linux, database architecture, networking, and scripting languages such as Python and Bash is essential, alongside experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform. This role demands a proven track record of designing scalable systems at enterprise scale for high availability and performance.
Skills
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Prometheus
Grafana
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
Terraform
Python
Bash
Go
VPC
DNS
Load Balancing
Firewall Rules
VPN
Private Service Connect
LLM Orchestration
Vector Databases
Model Serving Infrastructure
AI Observability
What you'll do
Leads research, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement for new systems and tooling.
Performs complex capacity planning, load testing, and security improvements on the platform.
Fully participates in on-call rotation, modeling calm and effective incident response.
Plans and leads high-risk maintenance events to minimize customer impact.
Elevates team standards through new processes, procedures, and communication practices.
What we're looking for
5+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture or Site Reliability Engineering at enterprise scale.
Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes for high-volume workloads.
Mastery of CI/CD pipeline architecture and monitoring platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.
Advanced knowledge in Linux system performance tuning, database architecture, and networking.
Proven proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Experience designing AI/ML-powered solutions into cloud-native platforms with emerging tool evaluation skills.
Market check
Salary context
Below market
How this pay compares to similar roles
Similar $178k
This role $150k
$99k
most similar roles pay here
$236k
This role pays less than
67%
of similar roles. Most pay
$142,400–$213,225
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$150k
versus about
$178k
for comparable roles.
Based on 239 similar postings.
Employer
About TransUnion
TransUnion is a global information and insights company and one of the "Big Three" credit reporting agencies, alongside Equifax and Experian.
TransUnion currently has
5 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$112,500–$187,500
across 5 roles with salary data.