Lead DevOps Engineer
Wolters Kluwer2 days ago
Bitritto, ItalyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and automate scalable cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Lead infrastructure, deployment pipeline, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code adoption across the organization.
- Design and evolve containerized and serverless architectures using AKS, EKS, Docker, and Azure Functions.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment frequency, reliability, and lead time.
- Implement observability standards covering monitoring, logging, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and proactive issue detection.
- Apply SRE principles to improve resilience, scalability, and reduce operational toil.
- Embed security-by-design, vulnerability management, secure configuration, and compliance practices across the SDLC.
- Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Enable reusable platform automation patterns and contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards.
- Mentor and lead DevOps engineers and collaborate with product, application development, and service operations teams.
- Drive AI-assisted operational automation and adoption of AI capabilities across the solution portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline.
- At least one Azure and/or AWS certification.
- 10+ years or equivalent senior experience in DevOps, SRE, Release Engineering, or Software Engineering, including production-critical systems.
- Strong experience designing and operating scalable, secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud-native systems using Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerized environments, and observability practices.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience working in Linux and Windows environments and automating operational tasks.
- Experience using AI-assisted tools and building or operating AI-enabled pipelines, with familiarity with prompt engineering and AI usage patterns.
- Practical application of SRE principles, including incident management, reliability, resilience, and toil reduction.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, driving DevOps transformation, and communicating technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, FinOps, AI observability, and Open Telekom Cloud.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated, and applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office for interviews.
- Candidates must participate in interviews without AI tools or external prompts; AI-generated responses or third-party support may result in disqualification.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.