Saxon Global
AWS Architect
Saxon Global, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
USC GC
AWS Architect
LULULEMON
PAY RATE: $75/HR C2C (maybe a bit higher)
NEED TO BE LOCAL TO SEATTLE GREATER AREA, WA (x2 days onsite)
AWS ARCHITECT
Need to be local to Seattle and in office 2 days x week
Team and Project:
Running Cloud Foundations, AWS/Azure core infra, mainly focused on policy/governance, self service automation, building DevOps pipelines for AWS/and Azure to automatically sping up accounts and prescriptions.
Goal, give a fully blown account subscriptions, they manage users, services, catalog, self service infra and guardrails around what they can and cannot do.
Experience setting up that infrastructure:
Opps Sec, CyberSec DevOps, that overlap, seeing with India recruiting, and Bharath's team but NO previous background working in infra, governance and large scale cloud subscriptions.
100, azure subscriptions on those account. Working at that scale is a big deal, it's a lot.
No clear line between engineers building pipelines and supporting infra, asking everyone to be doing everything.
"operational support" and technical capabilities
Big projects looking at:
Repipelining from Github/Jenkins, to Gitlab
Initiate those Terraform builds to get on AWS, Asset and key rotation....
Gitlab, is the big piece for net new development work
Wants people managing 100% of resources through Terraform, Cloud Formation and Configuration
You are deploying configuration
Patching with SSM System Manager in AWS, using Cloud Configuration tools, managing at a global policy levels
All of things
Everything is managing centrally by updated the code
Security is a huge focus of the larger cloud infra team, lots of security and changes coming down, security overriding needs and requirements. Allowing them to operate in that world. Engineers who are not averse to that level of tightening.•AWS/Azure•CLI•IAM/PAM, working with SecOps to come up with what those policies are, accessing services and catalog available, deploying as a primary IAM/cannot over rule those guardrails. Deploying with Terraform•Titles: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud DevOps Infra, but something like SecOps or DevSecOps, someone leaning more into policy generation and things as part of IaC.•"Self-service" "Automation" and things "more setting up pipeline where they can deploy code"
Hard spot, process work that needs to be done. Not a well-oiled machine, it's running at this point.
Not wanting to bring so many new people into a mess, but the team is under staffed
The biggest key to focus on is someone with "Enterprise cloud management" so they have worked on large orgs with lots of accounts/subscriptions.
Job Description: Senior Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
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 team/role
A core pillar of lululemon's technology strategy is to provide strong and scalable foundations. Leveraging cloud, we create and manage platforms servicing our internal stakeholders with a customer-first mindset. We enable and empower teams to become self-sufficient, while providing guardrails to protect the organization.
The Senior Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure is a pragmatic visionary, willing to make a lasting impact that echoes through the technology and the company. This engineer takes on Cloud Infrastructure's hardest problems and builds high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. They remain hands-on and lead by example. By being close to the details, this leader earns the respect needed to be effective technical leaders. The lead engineer brings clarity to complexity and demonstrates smart ways to simplify. This role requires a leader and mentor, setting excellent examples for the local teams and the entire engineering community.
The engineer must thrive in fast-paced environments, be able to manage through ambiguity and complexity, invent and simplify processes, and simultaneously support multiple projects impacting a growing global organization. This role requires excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to identify and eliminate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, make tradeoffs and balance business needs versus technical constraints. Maturity, curiosity, creative problem solving, and team leadership are all essential to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
Technical delivery and ownership
- Responsible for enterprise foundation systems supporting hundreds of accounts.
- Contributes to development of new solutioning principles and concepts.
- Expertise of engineering practices. Integrates broad working knowledge in related disciplines to create integrated engineering solutions for complex business situations.
- Advanced knowledge in Cloud (AWS/Azure) engineering and architecture, as well as automated application deployment and practical security methodology
- Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies used in software development, operations, security, cloud and scheduling platforms.
- Expert proficiency with Hashicorp's Terraform, Vault and Infrastructure as a Code patterns.
- Ability to work well in a highly dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding customer service.
- Comfort working remotely and perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.
Enrollment, Influence, and adoption
- Serves as an engineering resource in cross functional teams dealing with challenging engineering problems and opportunities.
- Articulate technical functionality of Terraform, Vault and infrastructure platforms to multiple technical audiences.
- Educate and advise users on how to adopt the functionality of infrastructure platform products within their strategy and processes to achieve measurable value.
- Translate application team needs into technical solutions and product requirements.
- Influences decisions that impact critical long term IT strategy for organizational success.
- Provides thought leadership to ensure that systems and services are designed, and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability, and sustainability.
- Understands and balances the needs of competing stakeholders across the organization.
- Demonstrates ability to coach team members around best practices for delivering high performant, secure and scalable solutions.
AWS Architect
LULULEMON
PAY RATE: $75/HR C2C (maybe a bit higher)
NEED TO BE LOCAL TO SEATTLE GREATER AREA, WA (x2 days onsite)
AWS ARCHITECT
Need to be local to Seattle and in office 2 days x week
Team and Project:
Running Cloud Foundations, AWS/Azure core infra, mainly focused on policy/governance, self service automation, building DevOps pipelines for AWS/and Azure to automatically sping up accounts and prescriptions.
Goal, give a fully blown account subscriptions, they manage users, services, catalog, self service infra and guardrails around what they can and cannot do.
Experience setting up that infrastructure:
Opps Sec, CyberSec DevOps, that overlap, seeing with India recruiting, and Bharath's team but NO previous background working in infra, governance and large scale cloud subscriptions.
100, azure subscriptions on those account. Working at that scale is a big deal, it's a lot.
No clear line between engineers building pipelines and supporting infra, asking everyone to be doing everything.
"operational support" and technical capabilities
Big projects looking at:
Repipelining from Github/Jenkins, to Gitlab
Initiate those Terraform builds to get on AWS, Asset and key rotation....
Gitlab, is the big piece for net new development work
Wants people managing 100% of resources through Terraform, Cloud Formation and Configuration
You are deploying configuration
Patching with SSM System Manager in AWS, using Cloud Configuration tools, managing at a global policy levels
All of things
Everything is managing centrally by updated the code
Security is a huge focus of the larger cloud infra team, lots of security and changes coming down, security overriding needs and requirements. Allowing them to operate in that world. Engineers who are not averse to that level of tightening.•AWS/Azure•CLI•IAM/PAM, working with SecOps to come up with what those policies are, accessing services and catalog available, deploying as a primary IAM/cannot over rule those guardrails. Deploying with Terraform•Titles: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud DevOps Infra, but something like SecOps or DevSecOps, someone leaning more into policy generation and things as part of IaC.•"Self-service" "Automation" and things "more setting up pipeline where they can deploy code"
Hard spot, process work that needs to be done. Not a well-oiled machine, it's running at this point.
Not wanting to bring so many new people into a mess, but the team is under staffed
The biggest key to focus on is someone with "Enterprise cloud management" so they have worked on large orgs with lots of accounts/subscriptions.
Job Description: Senior Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
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 team/role
A core pillar of lululemon's technology strategy is to provide strong and scalable foundations. Leveraging cloud, we create and manage platforms servicing our internal stakeholders with a customer-first mindset. We enable and empower teams to become self-sufficient, while providing guardrails to protect the organization.
The Senior Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure is a pragmatic visionary, willing to make a lasting impact that echoes through the technology and the company. This engineer takes on Cloud Infrastructure's hardest problems and builds high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. They remain hands-on and lead by example. By being close to the details, this leader earns the respect needed to be effective technical leaders. The lead engineer brings clarity to complexity and demonstrates smart ways to simplify. This role requires a leader and mentor, setting excellent examples for the local teams and the entire engineering community.
The engineer must thrive in fast-paced environments, be able to manage through ambiguity and complexity, invent and simplify processes, and simultaneously support multiple projects impacting a growing global organization. This role requires excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to identify and eliminate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, make tradeoffs and balance business needs versus technical constraints. Maturity, curiosity, creative problem solving, and team leadership are all essential to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
Technical delivery and ownership
- Responsible for enterprise foundation systems supporting hundreds of accounts.
- Contributes to development of new solutioning principles and concepts.
- Expertise of engineering practices. Integrates broad working knowledge in related disciplines to create integrated engineering solutions for complex business situations.
- Advanced knowledge in Cloud (AWS/Azure) engineering and architecture, as well as automated application deployment and practical security methodology
- Proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies used in software development, operations, security, cloud and scheduling platforms.
- Expert proficiency with Hashicorp's Terraform, Vault and Infrastructure as a Code patterns.
- Ability to work well in a highly dynamic environment that focuses on providing outstanding customer service.
- Comfort working remotely and perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.
Enrollment, Influence, and adoption
- Serves as an engineering resource in cross functional teams dealing with challenging engineering problems and opportunities.
- Articulate technical functionality of Terraform, Vault and infrastructure platforms to multiple technical audiences.
- Educate and advise users on how to adopt the functionality of infrastructure platform products within their strategy and processes to achieve measurable value.
- Translate application team needs into technical solutions and product requirements.
- Influences decisions that impact critical long term IT strategy for organizational success.
- Provides thought leadership to ensure that systems and services are designed, and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability, and sustainability.
- Understands and balances the needs of competing stakeholders across the organization.
- Demonstrates ability to coach team members around best practices for delivering high performant, secure and scalable solutions.