Sr DevOps Engineer

URBN; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO

Employee discounts

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nuuly is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. You will design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP, manage Kubernetes deployments, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.

You will work with Kafka and related tooling to support our event-driven architecture, monitor systems, and ensure security. A strong focus on reliability and performance is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with streaming data and distributed systems using asynchronous brokers like Kafka.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Deployment Manager.
• Strong problem-solving and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage).
• Collaborate with software teams to establish efficient CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain health and security of cloud infra.
• Optimize Kafka event-driven architecture and broker performance.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve overall system performance.
• Ensure cloud security best practices and stay updated on threats.

Skills

Cloud infra

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

GCP

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Deployment Manager

Job description

Role Summary

Nuuly is searching for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. We are looking for a candidate who will build and maintain features to enhance our systems, as well as serve as a deeply technical guide to our business team as they adopt features built by all engineering teams. Your goal will be to allow for seamless scalability of our production infrastructure and apply your technical expertise to help preclude growth concerns before they occur. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build a breadth of experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure on GCP and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes. The ideal candidate should have more than 3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps practices, with a strong emphasis on GCP services and Kubernetes orchestration, and some experience in asynchronous message brokers (like Kafka & RabbitMQ). You will play a crucial role in optimizing our cloud environment and streamlining our development and deployment processes. This role will impact Nuuly's overall success and growth, driving our scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Role Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, including Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Networking, and Confluent Kafka.
• Collaborate with software development teams to establish efficient CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and automated application deployments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain the health, performance, and security of the cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with our engineering team to optimize our Kafka message broker to support our event-driven architecture and enhance system performance.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimize the overall system performance.
• Ensure the security of the cloud infrastructure and applications, implementing best practices and staying up-to-date with the latest security threats and mitigations.
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and applications.
• Develop and maintain documentation for the infrastructure, deployment processes, and troubleshooting guides.
• Stay informed about the latest trends and advancements in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices, and propose relevant improvements to our infrastructure.

Role Qualifications

Qualifications

• More than 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of streaming data and distributed systems design with asynchronous message brokers like Kafka.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Deployment Manager.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Job Skills

• Designing and managing cloud infrastructure on GCP; including virtual machines, storage, networking, and IAM.
• Managing Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Maintaining our CI/CD pipelines with GCP and GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of essential Kafka components like Zookeeper, Brokers, and optimization of Kafka client applications (Producers/Consumers).
• Proficiency in YAML and experience with writing structured configuration files for infrastructure management and application deployment.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance standards.

The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.