Lead DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Provide technical leadership in the execution and delivery of technology solutions that support critical business applications.
• Lead and coordinate engineering activities across the development lifecycle, ensuring consistent use of standard design patterns, reusable services, and integration approaches.
• Champion strong engineering practices to ensure solutions are designed, built, and implemented using effective processes and modern technologies.
• Drive timely delivery without compromising system quality, reliability, security, or performance.
• Architect, build, implement, and support new platforms using cloud-native capabilities.
• Design, build, test, and document new features for a large-scale cloud-based data processing platform.
• Design and implement scalable, automated infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles and automation-first practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify improvement opportunities and deliver enhancements that integrate cleanly with existing platforms.
• Improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency, supporting high-volume data workflows.
• Participate in operational support (including on-call), ensuring high availability and timely incident resolution, including post-incident root cause analysis.
• Partner with data engineering and application teams to design and deploy automated build, deployment, and release pipelines for platform changes and feature delivery.
• Design and implement operational capabilities such as monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting cloud infrastructure and services.
• Strong experience with cloud-based services for data processing, storage, orchestration, and automation.
• Demonstrated experience building cloud-native solutions across core capabilities such as object storage, metadata/catalog services, serverless compute, managed orchestration, managed NoSQL/datastores, and centralized logging/metrics.
• Hands-on experience applying infrastructure-as-code and automation methodologies in production environments.
• Proven ability to design pragmatic, creative solutions using cloud-native managed services.
• Experience with solution architecture: evaluating options, designing, building, validating, and promoting solutions into production.
• Proficiency in Python or a similar language for automation, tooling, and platform development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• NoSQL
• Python

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in-class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.