Lead Software Engineer – DevSecOps & Platform Automation
Wolters Kluwer1 day ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve secure CI/CD pipelines and reusable pipeline templates for microservices, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, platform services, and AI/ML workloads.
- Implement progressive delivery, blue-green and canary deployments, feature flags, controlled rollouts, deployment health checks, and automated rollback signals.
- Own pipeline health, performance, reliability, onboarding, and self-service adoption across product teams.
- Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, container and image scanning, IaC security checks, policy checks, SBOM generation and verification, provenance, artifact signing, dependency governance, and secrets management into delivery workflows.
- Engineer Kubernetes and cloud platform automation, reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, GitOps delivery patterns, and secure environment provisioning across development, test, staging, and production.
- Integrate metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, DORA metrics, error budgets, runbooks, incident response, on-call support, and disaster recovery automation.
- Act as technical lead for the DevSecOps and platform automation team, owning delivery commitments, conducting code and design reviews, and mentoring engineers.
- Create documentation, runbooks, golden-path guidance, and enablement materials for product teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years focused on DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform automation.
- Proven experience building and operating automated delivery pipelines and platform capabilities in production.
- Experience leading or acting as technical lead for a small engineering team or workstream.
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, container registries, pipeline-as-code, and reusable templates.
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform, with Azure preferred and AWS or GCP also valued.
- Hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration experience and strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills, particularly Terraform.
- Working knowledge of cloud networking, identity, and secrets management.
- Hands-on experience integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools, plus container, cloud, and IaC security scanning.
- Familiarity with policy-as-code and awareness of SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, and related compliance frameworks.
- Strong coding and scripting skills in Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Nice-to-have experience includes AI/ML or Agentic AI pipelines, GitOps tooling, regulated environments, internal developer platforms, and relevant Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications.
Benefits
- The role includes an on-call rotation for delivery and platform services and may require onsite attendance at a Wolters Kluwer office for interviews.
- Candidates are asked to participate in interviews without AI tools or external prompts, and AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews may result in disqualification.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSAzureBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesPowerShellPythonSonarQubeTerraform
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.