Lead Software Engineer - DevSecOps & Platform Automation
Posted 11 days 1 hour ago by Wolters Kluwer
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Role Overview We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer (DevSecOps) to drive the hands on delivery of automated, secure, and reliable software delivery capabilities across our product engineering organization. This role is responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and embedded security controls that enable product teams to ship frequently, safely, and at scale. You will operate as a senior, hands on engineer and technical lead for a DevSecOps and platform automation team, turning DevSecOps strategy and reference architectures into working, production grade solutions. You will guide and mentor engineers, own delivery of key platform capabilities, and partner closely with product teams, architects, and Security to embed best practices into day to day engineering.
Core Mission Deliver the automation, pipelines, and platform capabilities that make secure, compliant, and reliable software delivery the default for every product team.
Key Responsibilities
CI/CD Tooling & Automation: Strong hands on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins). Experience with artifact repositories and container registries. Proficiency with pipeline as code and building reusable templates. Exposure to self service developer platforms or internal developer portals.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also valued). Hands on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration. Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, particularly Terraform. Working knowledge of cloud networking, identity, and secrets management.
Security & Compliance: Hands on experience integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools (e.g., SonarQube, Black Duck, or similar) into pipelines. Experience with container, cloud, and IaC security scanning. Familiarity with policy as code (e.g., OPA or similar). Awareness of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, PCI, etc.) and how they translate into engineering controls.
Engineering Mindset: Strong coding and scripting skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash). Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Pragmatic, delivery focused approach that balances security, speed, and developer experience. Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics to engineers and stakeholders. Comfortable using AI assisted development tools to accelerate engineering and automation work.
Nice to Have: Experience supporting AI/ML or Agentic AI pipelines. Familiarity with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux). Experience in regulated or highly audited environments. Contributions to internal developer platforms or golden paths. Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, HashiCorp Terraform Associate).
Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you-not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI generated responses or third party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a WoltersKluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
About WoltersKluwer If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at WoltersKluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We're innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world's leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You'll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at WoltersKluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.
WoltersKluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud based, AI powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190 year legacy . click apply for full job details
Core Mission Deliver the automation, pipelines, and platform capabilities that make secure, compliant, and reliable software delivery the default for every product team.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD & Delivery Platform Engineering: Build, maintain, and continuously improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Microservices, APIs, and platform services;
- Infrastructure-as-Code AI/ML and Agentic AI workloads: Implement and evolve reusable pipeline templates and blueprints that are secure by default, self service, and easy for product teams to adopt;
- Implement progressive delivery capabilities, including blue green and canary deployments, feature flags, and controlled rollouts;
- Own the day to day health, performance, and reliability of delivery pipelines, reducing build times and pipeline failures;
- Onboard product teams and new services onto standard pipelines and platform blueprints;
- DevSecOps & Supply Chain Security: Implement and tune security controls embedded in pipelines, including SAST, DAST, and SCA Container and image scanning, IaC security and policy checks, SBOM generation and verification;
- Implement secure software supply chain practices, including provenance, artifact signing, dependency governance, and secrets management and rotation;
- Work with Security teams to convert policies into automated, enforceable controls and quality gates;
- Triage security findings with product teams, drive timely remediation, and reduce false positives and friction for developers;
- Cloud, Infrastructure & Automation Engineer and maintain platform automation using Kubernetes and container platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, etc.), GitOps patterns for infrastructure and application delivery;
- Build and maintain reusable IaC modules and shared packages to reduce drift and standardise provisioning;
- Automate secure, repeatable environment provisioning for dev, test, staging, and production, including multi tenant and regulated workloads;
- Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce engineer cognitive load and manual tickets;
- Optimise pipelines and infrastructure for cost, speed, and reliability;
- Observability, Reliability & Resilience: Integrate observability into delivery pipelines and platforms, including metrics, logs, and traces (e.g., OpenTelemetry), deployment health checks, and automated rollback signals;
- Implement and report on DORA and deployment reliability metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR);
- Support SRE aligned practices such as error budgets, runbooks, and post incident reviews;
- Participate in incident response and on call rotation for delivery and platform services, driving fast detection and recovery;
- Contribute to disaster recovery automation and regular recovery testing;
- Technical Leadership & Team Enablement: Act as technical lead for a DevSecOps and platform automation team, setting priorities, breaking down work, and owning delivery commitments;
- Translate standards and reference architectures defined with Principal Engineers and Architects into practical, working implementations;
- Conduct code and design reviews for pipelines, IaC, and automation, ensuring quality, security, and maintainability;
- Coach and mentor engineers in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices;
- Create clear documentation, runbooks, and golden path guidance that help product teams self serve;
- Champion best practices through enablement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
CI/CD Tooling & Automation: Strong hands on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins). Experience with artifact repositories and container registries. Proficiency with pipeline as code and building reusable templates. Exposure to self service developer platforms or internal developer portals.
Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also valued). Hands on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration. Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, particularly Terraform. Working knowledge of cloud networking, identity, and secrets management.
Security & Compliance: Hands on experience integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools (e.g., SonarQube, Black Duck, or similar) into pipelines. Experience with container, cloud, and IaC security scanning. Familiarity with policy as code (e.g., OPA or similar). Awareness of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, PCI, etc.) and how they translate into engineering controls.
Engineering Mindset: Strong coding and scripting skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash). Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Pragmatic, delivery focused approach that balances security, speed, and developer experience. Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics to engineers and stakeholders. Comfortable using AI assisted development tools to accelerate engineering and automation work.
Nice to Have: Experience supporting AI/ML or Agentic AI pipelines. Familiarity with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux). Experience in regulated or highly audited environments. Contributions to internal developer platforms or golden paths. Relevant certifications (e.g., Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, HashiCorp Terraform Associate).
Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you-not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI generated responses or third party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a WoltersKluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
About WoltersKluwer If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at WoltersKluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We're innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world's leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You'll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at WoltersKluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.
WoltersKluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud based, AI powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190 year legacy . click apply for full job details