Hiring: Lead Enterprise Software Engineer – IT Operations Company: Wolters Kluwer Location: Riverwoods, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:01:33 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, AWS, Azure, Bash, CI/CD, Change Management, CloudFormation, Configuration Management, DNS, Datadog, ELK Stack, Grafana, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Java, Kubernetes, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, PowerShell, Prometheus, Python, Root Cause Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Terraform About the job Experience: •8-10 Years Qualifications •10 Years Qualifications Required Skills: •Own production reliability for critical applications; define and track SLOs, error budgets, and capacity/performance baselines. •Lead major incident response, drive clear business/technical communications, and ensure data-driven root cause analysis with preventative actions. •Direct release and change operations: assess risk, enforce readiness gates, validate post-deployment health, and improve change success rate. •Architect operational observability: design dashboards, alert strategies, log/trace pipelines, and runbook automation for rapid diagnosis and recovery. •Establish and continuously improve operational standards, guardrails, and runbooks; automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil. •Partner with engineering on resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads, graceful degradation, retries) and performance tuning. •Plan and execute capacity management, scaling strategies, and DR/BCP readiness, including failover testing and scenario exercises. •Champion security-by-default in operations: secrets hygiene, patch/vulnerability remediation, certificate/DNS management, least-privilege access. Qualifications: •Advanced expertise in operating applications on Azure and/or AWS, including networking, load balancers, DNS, certificates, storage, and messaging services. Strong knowledge of application operations in cloud environments (Azure/AWS). •Hands-on with observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch, Open Telemetry) and alert engineering. •Strong practical understanding of CI/CD concepts and collaboration with release teams; experience validating releases in lower/production environments. •Operational familiarity with infrastructure components: load balancers, storage networking, DNS and certificates. •Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) to build runbooks, health checks, and remediation workflows. •Security and compliance in operations: vulnerability remediation, secrets and key management, audit readiness. •Demonstrated capacity to interpret logs, metrics, traces, and performance data. •Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (modules, workspaces), Azure ARM/Bicep or AWS CloudFormation; policy-as-code and environment drift detection. •Demonstrated capacity to ensure 24x7 application reliability and operational excellence. •Manage end-to-end application lifecycle including deployments, configurations, and environment health. Compensation: •$118,300 - $207,400 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •This role is eligible for Bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!