Senior Enterprise Software Engineer

About the Role:
As a Senior Enterprise Software Engineer, you'll tackle advanced software engineering tasks with greater independence. Your role involves significant contributions to the design, development, and optimization of enterprise applications, ensuring robust performance in high-stakes environments like finance and HR.

Responsibilities:
. Independently develop and improve software applications.
. Lead code reviews and uphold coding standards.
. Conduct in-depth debugging and optimization.
. Perform end-to-end testing and validation.
. Maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
. Implement and monitor software performance improvements.
. Offer technical advice during project planning.
. Support deployment strategies and execution.
. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align requirements.
. Provide advanced technical support to resolve user issues.

Skills:
. Advanced Programming: Proficiency in Java, Python, C#, or similar languages.
. Complex Debugging: Expertise in identifying and resolving complex software issues.
. Version Control Proficiency: Extensive experience in Git or similar tools.
. Comprehensive Testing: Skills in executing end-to-end testing processes.
. Detailed Documentation: Ability to maintain detailed and useful technical documentation.
. Performance Optimization: Understand and apply techniques for optimizing software performance.
. Cross-functional Collaboration: Strong skills in working with various stakeholders.
. Advanced Technical Support: Provide high-quality support and resolve complex user issues.

Wolters Kluwer is looking for a hands-on Automation Engineer in our Enterprise Systems Software Engineering Team to design, deploy, support, operation, and integrate next generation of Enhanced Monitoring Observability cloud applications. Working within our Engineering/Automation areas, the senior cloud engineer (Lead Enterprise Software Engineer) will be collaborating closely with Architecture, Networking, Global Hosting, Cloud Operations, GIS Security, Compliance, Product Development teams and other key stakeholders, to ensure the applications are built in a resilient, secure, and scalable manner along with the standards. This role will be pivotal in driving automation across Enterprise Cloud infrastructure as part of Dev Sec Ops portfolio. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in IaC, production-grade automation, cross-cloud resiliency, and operational excellence.

The engineers are relied on for automating activities that are otherwise manual and bringing efficiencies to existing processes. In addition, automation engineers champion the development of reusable solutions/templates taking advantage of the latest capabilities that cloud monitoring has to offer.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Implementation/support/maintenance of AIOps/ system which is used by multiple development and operations teams.

• Implementation of plugins / integration components to existing monitoring solutions (commercial and custom).

• Work with product team in containerizing applications, debugging issues and assisting with app transformation.

• Implement full stack monitoring to ensure infra, cloud platform, OS, apps telemetry

• Work to continually improve time to market products and releases by proposing innovative solutions to automate

• Provide input into architecture and engineering standards

• Prepare and maintain the architectural documentation

• Explore new technologies, development patterns, and partake in pilots/POC/technology evaluations

• Coordinate and assist in complex troubleshooting in production support/operations

• IaC Development & Automation

  • Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using tools such as Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation, and Ansible for multi-cloud environments.

  • Build Just-In-Time reusable ADO pipelines integrated with YAML-based deployment patterns and application-driven inputs for automated recovery and provisioning.

• Disaster Recovery & AIops Engineering

  • Lead technical design and implementation of automated DRA pipelines including failover/failback strategies across AWS and Azure.

  • Implement infrastructure workflows as part of AIOps for automated trend analysis, load balancer control, firewall posture tracking, and vulnerability remediation.

• Production Reliability & Incident Support

  • Act as Tier-4 engineering escalation point for complex production incidents, root cause analysis, and recovery automation.

  • Develop self-healing mechanisms and monitoring enhancements using cloud-native tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Tanium).

  • Ability to debug and handle complex incidents in production environments with composure.

• Security & Compliance Integration

  • Support infrastructure compliance with frameworks such as NIST, SOC2, PCI-DSS, by embedding automated posture checks and remediation in CI/CD.

  • Participate in weekly vulnerability reviews, risk register updates, and remediation rollout across cloud environments.

• Collaboration & Documentation

  • Collaborate with product owners, QA, business analysts, and application teams to translate functional use cases into automated infrastructure solutions.

  • Maintain documentation for automation workflows, pipeline standards, and reusable modules.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Tools and Tech

Proficiency needed (out of 5)

CI/CD with Azure DevOps

4

Git/Github

4

Jenkins

3

API development

3

SQL server database management (good to have)

2

Oracle server database management

2

IaC - Terraform , Arm/Bicep/ Cloud formation

4

Bash scripting

2

Powershell scripting

4

Azure function

4

Python (AWS lambda)

4

Prompt engineering AI (AWS Q, Bedrock , Anthropic, Gen AI) integration - plug and play

3

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: Terraform Associate, AWS/Azure Architect, CKA/CKAD preferred.

• Experience with AI/ML-driven operations tools or auto-remediation frameworks.

• Exposure to SRE practices, Observability stack, and incident automation.

Soft Skills

• Proactive ownership of initiatives with a delivery-first mindset.

• Strong cross-functional communication and ability to work in agile pods.

• Clear documentation and reporting skills (contributing to audit and security reviews).

• Actively explore new trends and identify new ways of solving old problems

• Serves as a peer leader to other developers and develops technical skills and practices for high-quality software development

• Liaise with other teams and stakeholders, adhering to standards and coordinating approaches. participate in Agile activities and assist the development and testing process changes as and when required.

Other Duties

• Performs other duties as assigned by management

Job Qualifications & EXPERIENCE

Education:

• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Experience:

Required:

• 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, Cloud DevOps Role

• 6+ years experience in writing IaC templates

• 6+ years writing programmatic deployment artifacts for enterprise applications

• 6+ years experience working with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or other well-known tools)

• 6+ years experience with Kubernetes and Prometheus

• 6+ years experience in Monitoring systems: Zabbix and/or Prometheus (experience in Data Dog / New Relic / Dynatrace / AppDynamics will be plus), cloud native monitoring solutions (AWS CloudWatch/X-Ray, Azure Monitoring)

• 5+ years experience in Logging solutions: preferable Elasticsearch

• 4+ years experience in Visualization tools: Grafana/Kibana

• 4+ years experience in Scripting: Bash and/or PowerShell, Python

• 4+ years strong experience in Architectural

• 4+ years strong experience in Networking skills

• 4+ years strong experience in Linux

• A strong DevOps experience on AWS & Azure

• Expertise in a SCM/CI/CD tool like GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins

• 4+ experience with SQL

• 2+ Certifications in AWS and Azure

Soft Skills Required:

• Able to work independently, Lead the initiatives, Mentor/help the Org to build next gen team

Seniority:

• Individual Contributor

• Lead

Travel requirements

None

Physical Demands

Normal professional office environment.

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