Lead Engineer – DevOps

Company: Wolters Kluwer
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Location: Maharashtra
Job Description:

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. As a Lead, you will manage and mentor a team of 3–4 DevOps Engineers while also operating as a strong individual contributor (approximately 75% of your capacity). You will own the modernization, reliability, and scalability of our DevOps ecosystem—driving CI/CD excellence, enhancing release operations, strengthening infrastructure automation, and ensuring smooth deployments across multiple global regions.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 10–15 years of total experience, with at least 4–5 years in senior/lead DevOps roles.
  • Strong expertise in Azure cloud, including AKS, Azure Networking, MySQL PaaS, IAM, Storage.
  • Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and container lifecycle management.
  • Expertise in CI/CD using:Azure DevOps PipelinesGitHub Actions (migration experience is a strong advantage)
  • Strong, hands-on IaC experience:YAML-based templates (ADO/GitHub)Terraform (must-have for upcoming initiatives)
  • Strong understanding of multi-region deployments, artifact management, and release orchestration.
  • Solid debugging skills for pipelines, container workloads, connectivity, performance, and MySQL/Azure PaaS behaviour.Excellent understanding of monitoring, logs, and alerting using Datadog , Azure Log Analytics (ALA), etc.
  • Experience with Secrets Management via Vault or equivalent.
  • Strong scripting in PowerShell is mandatory. Exposure to Bash/Python is a plus.
  • Exposure to CI/CD build processes for .NET and Angular applications (dotnet CLI, NuGet, npm/Angular CLI), with the ability to troubleshoot build and dependency issues.
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow DevOps engineers.

    • Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, or enterprise ITSM processes.
  • Feature flag systems (Azure App Configuration, or similar).
  • Experience in Power BI
  • Knowledge of GitOps practices (ArgoCD/Flux).
  • Exposure to FinOps, cost optimization, and cloud governance.

    • Experience with API Gateway, service mesh, or advanced AKS networking.

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

  • Lead design, deployment, and optimization of infrastructure on Azure (AKS, VMSS/IaaS, Azure PaaS services—especially Azure App Services, Key Vault, Service Bus, Az Redis, AZ Entra ID,MySQL).
  • Own and improve container orchestration workflows using Docker & AKS.
  • Drive segregation of services into individual AKS pods for improved reliability and scalability.
  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform (transition from existing Classic/YAML-based IaC in ADO/GitHub).

    • 2. CI/CD & Release Engineering

  • Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines across ADO and GitHub Actions.
  • Lead the migration from Azure DevOps pipelines → GitHub Actions.
  • Leads Hands Free release transition
  • Maintain and optimize build & release pipelines for over 20+ services deployed to global regions.
  • Develop automated, hands-free deployment processes with guardrails, validations, and rollback mechanisms.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures, environment issues, and release blockers—including MySQL PaaS-related issues.
  • Support release execution across multiple global regions, ensuring release readiness, consistency of configuration, and alignment of deployments.
  • Support production release, ensure gaps in release configuration are identified and resolved proactively.
  • Help standardize, automate, and optimize release workflows to improve predictability and reduce manual steps.

    • 3. Reliability & Operations

  • Ensure reliability and health of AKS workloads across multiple regions.
  • Set up effective monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Datadog, Azure Log Analytics, and related tools.
  • Manage secrets and configurations using Vault and Azure-native services.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve service resilience, deployment patterns, and release quality.

    • 4. Leadership & Collaboration

  • Lead and mentor a DevOps team of 3–4 engineers.
  • Collaborate closely with Development, QA, SRE, Architecture, Security, and Program Management.
  • Define standards, best practices, and governance for CI/CD, IaC, and release management.
  • Drive a culture of automation, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.

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    Posted: February 15th, 2026

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