Lead DevOps Engineer, Wolters Kluwer

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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