Lead Product Software Engineer | DevOps

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This is a hybrid position requiring 8 days per month at an approved Wolters Kluwer location.

As a Lead Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops engineers, fostering a culture of engineering rigor, code‑as‑infrastructure, and continuous learning through peer reviews, technical workshops, and hands‑on guidance.

• Engineer and automate scalable, secure Cloud Infrastructure in Azure and AWS using Infrastructure as Code 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops and Security engineering standards, contributing to architectural governance and compliance.
• Mentor Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops engineering practices across teams and departments.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, applying engineering discipline to improve alert quality, reduce noise, and automate remediation.

• 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…