Job description
NOTE: This is a hybrid position requiring 8 days per month at an approved Wolters Kluwer location. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing scalable, resilient infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support the full software development lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with Wolters Kluwer Product Teams to integrate DevOps best practices into agile development workflows, driving continuous integration, automated testing, and rapid deployment. Your work will directly impact system reliability, performance, and maintainability, ensuring our applications meet high standards of software quality and operational excellence. Partnering with application development teams, you will help bridge the gap between development and operations, enabling seamless delivery of microservices, containerized applications, and cloud-native solutions. You will also mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of engineering rigor, code-as-infrastructure, and continuous learning through peer reviews, technical workshops, and hands-on guidance Responsibilities: Engineer and automate scalable, secure Cloud Infrastructure in Azure and AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins, applying software development best practices like modularization, version control, and testing. Lead the engineering adoption of IaC across Service Operations and Delivery, mentoring teams on reusable code patterns, configuration management, and DevOps pipelines. Design and implement modern compute architectures, including containerized and serverless solutions (AKS, EKS, Docker, Azure Functions), with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines as software products, ensuring robust testing, artifact management, and deployment orchestration across multiple environments. Architect and support Cloud Native solutions, aligning with software engineering principles such as abstraction, decoupling, and observability. Build observability into systems using telemetry, logging, and tracing to support proactive issue detection and root cause analysis. Ensure infrastructure and automation solutions align with enterprise DevOps and Security engineering standards, contributing to architectural governance and compliance. Mentor DevOps engineers with a focus on software craftsmanship, clean code, and continuous improvement. Prototype and evaluate emerging technologies, applying engineering rigor to assess feasibility, performance, and integration potential. Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles such as error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and incident response to improve system reliability and reduce operational toil. Contribute to architectural design and engineering standards for infrastructure and platform services. Deploy and maintain critical applications, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and performance tuning. Modernize legacy systems through re-architecture, refactoring, and cloud-native transformation strategies. Identify and address engineering inefficiencies, proposing automation and architectural improvements. Lead post-incident reviews, contributing to blameless root cause analysis and systemic fixes. Promote knowledge sharing of automation and DevOps engineering practices across teams and departments. Participate in on-call rotations, applying engineering discipline to improve alert quality, reduce noise, and automate remediation Qualifications: Bachelor's Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field Minimum 8 years of software related experience required, with a mixture of Site Reliability, DevOps, or Release Engineering experience with Software Engineering experience in backend services, middleware or data systems Strong background in software development, with experience in languages such as Python, .NET or Java. Possess recent experience with Cloud infrastructure (Azure and AWS) Proficient in Shell Scripting Languages (PowerShell & Bash). Understanding of the core Azure/AWS services (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS). Proficiency with automation and source configuration management tools such as Git Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins or Travis CI. Able to clearly explain technical projects to diverse staff to gain their support. Strong attention to detail with excellent problem-solving skills. Experience and deep commitment to the transformation to a DevOps culture focusing on continuous integration – full lifecycle of building, automated and performance testing, and automating deployment. Experience building platforms for Observability and defining standard operating procedures Experience with diagnostic tools and script automation of Windows and Linux Preferred Experience: Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems at scale using Infrastructure as Code automation and CI/CD pipelines Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available - https://www.mywolterskluwerbenefits.com/index.html Diversity Matters Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process. Compensation: Target salary range CA, CT, CO, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NY, RI, WA: $145,500 - $203,900 If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. Wolters Kluwer reported 2023 annual revenues of €5.6 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 21,400 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries which impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the information, software solutions, and services they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and save time. Our expert solutions combine deep domain knowledge with technology to deliver both content and workflow automation to drive improved outcomes and productivity for our customers. We are committed to helping professionals improve the way they do business and solve complex problems with our range of digital solutions and services, which we continuously evolve to meet their changing needs. Our 188-year legacy and portfolio represent thousands of customers worldwide. For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated team of experienced talent acquisition professionals who are ready to hear what makes you tick and share how Wolters Kluwer can help you achieve your goals and ambitions. Here Rasi Fawaz shares some tips on what recruiters are looking for on a resume. As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work. We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion. This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics. At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous. In 2024 we were awarded Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization, in recognition of our commitment to maintaining and enhancing the well-being of our colleagues through our ‘Together we thrive’ well-being program. To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions. 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