Lead DevOps Engineer

Grade Level (for internal use):

We are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled engineering leader to join S&P Global Energy. Our team delivers sector-specific, data-rich solutions that are tightly aligned to evolving business needs.

You will help design and build modern cloud platforms, shared data assets, and reusable capabilities leveraged across the organization. The team owns the DevOps function for a large-scale, cloud-based data processing environment—establishing best practices for cloud infrastructure, data processing, and operational excellence. You will also advise partner teams on modernization initiatives and scalable data solutions.

• 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.

• 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.

• Experience designing and operating serverless architectures in a cloud environment.
• Experience integrating cloud solutions with enterprise security scanning, observability, and monitoring capabilities.
• Experience working with automotive data or other complex, domain-specific datasets.
• Experience with cloud security practices, including monitoring, compliance, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with cost optimization, usage monitoring, and continuous remediation.
• Proven experience building and managing automated deployment and release processes.
• Experience using generative AI tools to improve productivity (e.g., researching technologies, accelerating design exploration, or assisting with logic development).

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include: 

• 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.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
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