Wolters Kluwer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Wolters Kluwer$116K — $204K *
US-Anywhere
+ 11 other locationsRemote
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Release Engineering
  • Strong background in software development (Python, .NET, or Java)
  • Recent experience with Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Proficient in Shell Scripting (PowerShell & Bash)
  • Experienced with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Experience in leading a team of DevOps engineers

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and automate cloud infrastructure in Azure & AWS using Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Provide leadership and mentoring on Infrastructure as Code automation across Service Operations and Delivery
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
  • Advise on and support the adoption of Cloud Native solutions
  • Ensure infrastructure solutions align with organizational DevOps and Security patterns
  • Mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration and continuous learning
  • Explore and evaluate new technologies and development patterns

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package that starts on the first day of employment
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
  • 401(k) plan
  • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
  • Tuition Assistance Plan
  • Vacation and Sick Time
  • Paid Parental Leave
Full Job Description
As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the infrastructure and CI/CD  pipelines for our applications, as well as maintaining and improving the reliability of our existing systems. You will work alongside the Wolters Kluwer Product Teams to successfully implement and bring any learnings through continuous improvements. You will work closely with the application development teams to ensure that our services and solutions are delivered efficiently and with the highest level of quality. In addition, you will be responsible for mentoring a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration with continuous learning

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement and automate the creation of Cloud Infrastructure in Azure & AWS using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins
  • Provide leadership, experience and mentoring on the adoption and usage of Infrastructure as Code automation across Service Operations and Delivery and as well as the broader organization
  • Build and help transform towards container and serverless compute architectures, such as AKS, EKS, Docker and Azure Functions.
  • Build and help maintain CI/CD pipelines and orchestrations across multiple environments
  • Advise, implement and support the adoption of Cloud Native solutions as appropriate to the situation and needs
  • Build effective Observability of managed solutions, including troubleshooting issues as they arise.
  • Ensure the infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and CI/CD solutions for FCC/DXG are compatible with the broader organizational DevOps and Security patterns and processes
  • Mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
  • Explore new technologies, development patterns, and partake in pilots/POC/technology
    evaluations.
  • Conduct work activities using SRE principles, such as resilience, metrics, capacity planning, toil, Incident management and security.
  • Provide input into architecture and engineering standards
  • Deploy and maintain critical applications
  • Provide input into designing new systems and modernize existing applications
  • Identify areas in need of engineering improvements and propose replacement strategies
  • Resolve Production Incidents and contribute to root cause analysis
  • Improve knowledge sharing across the organization on automation best practices.
  • Have on call responsibilities in rotation within the Service Delivery and Operations team

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.
  • Experience in leading a team of DevOps engineers.
  • 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 -  

Our Interview Practices

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:

$116,400.00 - $204,100.00 USD

 

This role is eligible for Bonus.

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. 

Additional Information:

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.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services company. The company provides information, software, and services to legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare professionals. Wolters Kluwer has operations in over 40 countries and employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.
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