Senior Platform Engineer DevOps
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.
Key Responsibilities:
CI/CD Pipeline Management
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent
- Enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments across multiple environments
- Drive adoption of modern deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary releases)
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering:
- Architect and manage scalable cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
- Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance and cost optimization
- Contribute to platform engineering initiatives for reusable infrastructure components
Automation & Developer Productivity:
- Identify and eliminate manual processes through automation
- Build tools and frameworks to improve developer efficiency and self-service capabilities
- Promote DevOps and GitOps practices across engineering teams
Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering:
- Design and implement observability solutions (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Define and manage SLAs, SLOs and SLIs to ensure system reliability
- Establish alerting, dashboards and proactive monitoring practices
- Drive continuous improvements in system performance and uptime
Production Support & Incident Management:
- Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
- Implement long-term fixes to prevent recurring issues
- Champion reliability engineering principles and reduce operational toil
Security, Compliance & DevSecOps:
- Integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure
- Manage IAM roles, secrets, and access controls
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Provide technical leadership in DevOps and cloud architecture decisions
- Partner with engineering, QA, product, and platform teams to deliver RFID roadmap initiatives
- Drive adoption of enterprise level DevOps best practices
Required Qualifications:
- 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, systems engineering, or related roles
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Proven experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
- Experience with GitOps practices and tools (ArgoCD, or similar)
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Strong scripting/programming skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar)
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration preferably Kubernetes
- Solid understanding of system design, scalability and distributed systems
- Interest in applying AI-driven solutions to enhance automation, observability and operational efficiency
- Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, etc.)
Preferred / Nice to Have:
- Experience with event streaming (Kafka)
- Familiarity with API gateways (KONG) or CDN tools (Akamai)
- Exposure to eCommerce, retail, or inventory management platforms
- Demonstrated curiosity and passion for exploring emerging technologies including AI/ML