Wolters Kluwer · 2 weeks ago
Lead Product Software Engineer | DevOps
St Cloud, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$116K/yr - $204K/yr
8+ years expWolters Kluwer is a global company that focuses on providing information services and solutions. They are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to architect and implement scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with product teams to integrate DevOps practices into agile workflows and ensure high standards of software quality and operational excellence.
BankingFinanceInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyLegalMobilePublishingSoftware
Hiring Manager
John O'Hara
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
Qualification
Required
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 maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native systems at scale using Infrastructure as Code automation and CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Commuter Benefits
Tuition Assistance Plan
Vacation and Sick Time
Paid Parental Leave
Company
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is an information services company specializing in software solutions and services for the healthcare and legal sectors.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.78B2025-06-23Post Ipo Debt· $578.76M
2025-03-13Post Ipo Debt· $542.74M
2024-03-11Post Ipo Debt· $655.84M
Leadership Team
Jason Marx
CEO, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting
Nancy McKinstry
CEO
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