IT Network Manager

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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 Trans Union’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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

At Trans Union 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 Trans Union 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

Trans Union – 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…