Senior Platform Engineer – Gitlab / IAC

lululemon is located at Vancouver, BC. The company is currently looking for applications for the role of Senior Platform Engineer – Gitlab / IAC. We are seeking a self-disciplined individual with exceptional interpersonal skills. The chosen applicant will be required to join and begin their duties as soon as possible. The employer is offering a full-time position.

Employer Name: lululemon
Position: Senior Platform Engineer – Gitlab / IAC
Salary: $132,600 – $174,000 annually
Employment type: Full-time
Location: Vancouver, BC

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Job Description

• The candidate will develop sophisticated Kubernetes platforms, container orchestration strategies, and cloud infrastructure abstractions to support engineering teams operating at scale.
• The candidate will design and build advanced CI/CD and delivery systems that support complex workflows, artifact management, and deployment patterns across multiple environments.
• The candidate will be required to develop self-service platform capabilities, including APIs, CLIs, portals, and templates, to enhance developer productivity and support safe infrastructure provisioning.
• The candidate will be required to design, build, and deploy comprehensive observability platforms that include logging architecture, metrics frameworks, distributed tracing systems, and intelligent alerting platforms.
• The candidate will be responsible for leading incident response for critical platform issues while coordinating cross-team efforts, conducting technical investigations, and improving platform reliability.

Job Requirements

• The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or have equivalent experience.
• A master’s degree will be considered an asset for this position.
• The candidate must have 6–10 years of experience developing enterprise platform systems and leading infrastructure initiatives across engineering teams, or equivalent experience.
• The candidate must have proven experience building and maintaining platform infrastructure while applying established automation standards.
• The candidate must have a track record of driving platform automation decisions across multiple teams.
• The candidate must demonstrate the ability to architect sophisticated Kubernetes platforms and cloud infrastructure supporting diverse workload requirements.
• The candidate must have experience designing compute, storage, and networking abstractions while balancing performance, cost, and developer experience.
• The candidate should demonstrate experience building intuitive self-service capabilities such as APIs, CLIs, and portals to enhance developer productivity.
• The candidate must have a proven ability to design developer tools and workflows that enable teams to operate independently.
• The candidate must have expertise in managing DevOps platforms and tooling, including GitLab, Terraform Enterprise, Snyk, Xray, and Datadog.
• The candidate must have experience building developer experience automation, including internal developer portals, golden path templates, and self-service tooling.
• The candidate must demonstrate the ability to measure and improve developer productivity through platform instrumentation and feedback loops across diverse engineering teams.
• The candidate must demonstrate experience engineering software supply chain security capabilities, including artifact provenance, dependency lifecycle management, container image governance, and vulnerability remediation workflows.
• The candidate must acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for their actions and decisions.
• The candidate must possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously seek innovative ways to achieve strong results.
• The candidate must communicate with honesty and kindness while encouraging others to do the same.
• The candidate must lead with courage, recognizing that the possibility of greatness is greater than the fear of failure.
• The candidate must foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• The candidate must demonstrate a positive attitude and balance professionalism with a sense of fun and joy in the workplace.
• The candidate must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Additional information

Work conditions

• The candidate will be required to support in-person collaboration and connection as an essential part of the company culture.
• The candidate will be required to perform work onsite for a minimum of 4 days per week.

Benefits

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through the provided channels or options.

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