Lead Product Software Engineer | DevOps

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

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.

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position.  Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process. 

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: 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 upon request.