Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Wolters Kluwer; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 93,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Houston to design, implement, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across environments. You will partner with product teams to embed DevOps practices in Agile workflows, enabling continuous integration, automated testing, and reliable deployments.

You will focus on hands‑on engineering excellence, building cloud‑native platforms, championing IaC, and mentoring engineers while driving reliability, performance, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Release Engineering, or related roles with strong hands‑on software engineering experience.
• Strong background in software development with Python, .NET, or Java.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (Azure and AWS).
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash.
• Solid understanding of core Azure and AWS services (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS).
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in Azure and AWS using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Implement and maintain IaC and CI/CD pipelines with reusable modules and patterns.
• Design and implement containerized and serverless compute platforms (AKS, EKS, Docker, Azure Functions).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines as software products with strong test coverage and deployment automation.
• Support cloud‑native architectures with abstraction, decoupling, fault isolation, and observability.
• Implement observability solutions with metrics, logging, and tracing for proactive issue detection.

Skills

DevOps experience

Hands-on software engineering

Software development

Cloud platforms

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)

CI/CD pipelines

Communication

DevOps culture

Observability

Cross-platform troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Wolters Kluwer is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Houston to design, implement, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across environments. You will partner with product teams to embed DevOps practices in Agile workflows, enabling continuous integration, automated testing, and reliable deployments.

You will focus on hands‑on engineering excellence, building cloud‑native platforms, championing IaC, and mentoring engineers while driving reliability, performance, and