DevOps Engineer

About this job

We are looking for a motivated lead Devops engineer to become a core member of our team building solutions for retail delivery team here at lululemon.  We work in a cloud native environment where “automation” and “Infrastructure as Code” are guiding principles and necessary for the development of high-quality and resilient software systems.  These systems, which you will build and extend, are all integrated into a consistent automated CI/CD pipeline. You’ll be involved in many aspects; helping to evolve our existing architecture, working with teams to improve operations, and implementing new features and functionality. 

• Demonstrable experience with configuration, orchestration, and automation tools such
  as Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Maven, and Ant to provide full stack integration
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise platforms, tools and principles including: Web
  Services, Load Balancers, Shell Scripting, Authentication, IT Security, and Performance
  Tuning
• Demonstrated understanding of system resiliency, redundancy, failovers and disaster
  recovery
• Experience working with a variety of vendor APIs including cloud, physical and logical
  infrastructure devices
• Strong working knowledge of Cloud offerings (EC2, ECS, IAM, Lambda, Cloud services,
  API management, PaaS)
• Experience managing and deploying Infrastructure as Code, using tools like Terraform

Responsibilities

• Lead and assist the retail Devops team with architecture, guidance, as well as managing ticket queues/backlogs and prioritizing work for other team members
• Review requirement, design and architect solution
• Lead technical conversation and identify the necessary resource or choose the technology working with the Domain Architect
• Manage and maintain standards for Devops tools used by the team
• Administering the cloud environments (Prod, Dev and QA)
• Work closely with the software developers and product management teams to design, deploy and manage scalable software services on the cloud and on premise
• Providing system analysis and recommended solutions for environment performance and availability needs
• Monitoring and escalating engineering issues to Product Management/R&D teams when required
• Managing a continuous integration/deployment methodology for our server-based technologies
• Build and implement tools such as, Puppet and Python scripting for streamlined deployments & systems updates.

Qualifications:

• University Degree in MIS, computer science or a related (technical) field
• Experience with at least one of these programming languages: Java, Python, JavaScript.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks and to coordinate activities with a high sense of urgency
• Strong software development fundamentals including automated testing, source control (Git), continuous integration in addition to continuous delivery and/or deployment.  Experience working with complex multi-tier applications
• Experience in Cloud Sourcing and Asset Management (Cloud Operating Ideals, Cloud Choice, Cloud Management)
• Working knowledge about Cloud Security Assurance (Identity, Perimeter Defense, Monitoring & Surveillance, Compliance)
• Working knowledge of working in Cloud Network Segmentation, Connectivity and Pipeline Automation
• Analytical/problem solving ability
• Strong communication skills across organizational levels of technical and non-technical