Lead DevOps Engineer

As a Lead Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration with continuous learning

• 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 Dev Ops and Security patterns and processes
• Mentor a team of Dev Ops 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

• 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, Dev Ops, 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 (Power Shell & 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 Cloud Formation.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins or Travis CI.
• Experience in leading a team of Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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

• Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems at scale using Infrastructure as Code automation and CI/CD pipelines

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment.…