Lead DevOps & SRE Engineer

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 11Role: Lead DevOps & SRE Engineer – Enterprise Developer Platform and Toolchain The Team  The Enterprise Developer Platform & Toolchain team owns the developer platforms, tools and capabilities used by software engineers across S&P Global. Our core functions are DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, Platform Engineering, SRE and Developer Experience (DevEx). We partner with divisional DevOps/TechOps teams and InfoSec to establish consistent controls and governance across the SDLC, securing developer tools without disrupting the developer experience. We build services and processes that enable DevOps practices company-wide and use DevEx insights to keep our platforms simple, consistent and engineer-friendly. The team is globally distributed.  The Impact  You will own the reliability, availability, and performance of the developer platform services and self-hosted infrastructure that support engineers across S&P Global. You will lead and mentor a team of DevOps and SRE engineers, and own service levels, patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation for infrastructure and tooling. You will define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, lead incident management, and report DORA and operational metrics. You will build observability, automation, and disaster recovery capabilities that reduce toil and risk. You will manage vendor relationships, support SLAs, and licensing, and ensure the platform meets change management, audit, and control requirements. Partnering with platform and security leads, divisional DevOps/TechOps teams, and BISOs, you will keep the toolchain stable, secure, and cost-efficient so engineers can deliver without disruption.  What’s in It for You  Do you want to lead the operations of a developer platform at enterprise scale and make reliability a measurable outcome? You will own the platform’s operational health end to end, working with GitHub Enterprise and Actions (self-hosted runners on VMs and Kubernetes/ARC), AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, Wiz, Qualys, and ServiceNow. You will apply SRE practices such as SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and DR testing, and bring in FinOps and cost optimisation to improve efficiency. You will build and grow a team, work with platform and security leaders on high-visibility initiatives tied to company strategy, and engage with vendors and senior stakeholders. We support your growth through innovation projects, training, cloud, Kubernetes, and SRE certifications, and knowledge sharing.  Responsibilities  Own reliability, availability and performance of platform services and self-hosted infrastructure.  Manage the patching, upgrade and vulnerability remediation lifecycle for infrastructure and tooling.  Define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, lead incident management, and report DORA and operational metrics.  Build observability, automation and disaster recovery capabilities to reduce toil and risk.