Sr IT Engineer, Cloud Site Reliability
About the position Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are. We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.
Responsibilities
- Designs and leads overall sustainability for systems including scheduling, monitoring and testing of our platform resiliency.
- Documents business case options for design to address sustainability and system efficiency impacts where appropriate.
- Investigates and recommends components and subsystems that meet sustainability criteria and levels.
- Develops and adopts appropriate design standards, methods, and tools in order to design complex systems and ensures they are applied effectively.
- Oversees others' systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Evaluates impact analysis on major design options then assesses and manages associated risks.
- Ensures that the system design balances functional, service quality and security.
- Leads the development efforts for interpretation, execution, and documentation of complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
- Records and analyze actions and results and maintains a defect tracker.
- Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary.
- Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project.
- Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases.
- Identifies process improvements and contributes to corporate testing standards and definition of best practice.
- Introduces and configures monitoring and testing tools to build dashboards detailing KPI’s associated with platform resiliency that are standardized across environments.
- Plans, executes and reports on resiliency real time in an always-on approach to platform and application services.
- Key stakeholder with architecture, engineering, and product teams to establish solution patterns and ensures adherence to overall design to support resiliency at each layer of a solution.
- Works with cross functional Product owners to remediate and technical debt that is identified through the testing plans.
- Provides detailed reporting on resiliency to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with Cloud Engineering experience with focus on Azure and GCP.
- Five (5) years in any occupation with Cloud Engineering experience with focus on Azure and GCP must include: Experience creating and executing platform resiliency testing strategies; Leading a program/project working with multiple stakeholders to deliver on those strategies; Experience with leading engineers through complex development; Experience with Ansible and Terraform platforms and code; Experience as lead platform engineer in public and private clouds; Ability to guide application code refactoring (GoLang, Java, Spring); Leading code practices and engineering documentation standards; and Experience is driving agile processes for engineering platforms and software.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Disability benefits
- Bonus plan