IT Network Manager in Leeds

The team responsible for managing change, transformation, and automation across the UK network infrastructure 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 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.

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 ukrecruitment@transunion.com.

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 CVs from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL, our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

TransUnion Overview

At TransUnion, we encourage and are committed to creating a real, positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good, which empowers our people to grow, innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver’s seat of their professional development— while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; that’s why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence.