Sr DevOps Engineer

Who we are

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

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
• Experience working in Agile environment

Must haves:

• Have good understanding of Dev Ops, Rack Space and Cloud env (AWS, Azure etc.)
• Have worked on Containerization and Cloud platform orchestration
• Hands on -Automation using Puppet, and exposure into other tools and technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Nomad etc.
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take themselves too seriously