lululemon · 8 hours ago
Senior Technology Manager - Enterprise Cloud Platforms
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $218K/yr
7+ years explululemon is an innovative performance apparel company focused on creating transformational products and experiences. The Senior Technology Manager – Enterprise Cloud Platforms will lead the company's cloud transformation journey, defining and overseeing enterprise-level platforms that enhance engineering productivity in a multi-cloud environment, primarily AWS and Azure.
ApparelE-CommerceFitnessLifestyleSporting GoodsWellness
No H1B
Responsibilities
Set the vision and strategy for enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring Kubernetes and related services deliver secure, scalable foundations for the organization
Engage with stakeholders across engineering, architecture, and product teams to understand platform requirements, prioritize features, and align on timelines
Develop and refine roadmaps for multi-cloud adoption (AWS and Azure), container orchestration, and developer enablement services
Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, architects, and product managers—fostering growth, collaboration, and technical excellence
Drive technology decisions through Build vs. Buy analysis, vendor evaluations, and RFP processes for platform services
Champion best practices in Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, IAM, and cost optimization across federated teams
Facilitate cross-team alignment through collaborative forums, workshops, and technical reviews—removing friction and accelerating adoption
Oversee operational excellence, including incident management, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of platform reliability
Manage budgets and vendor relationships, ensuring cost efficiency and value delivery for managed services and tooling
Influence organizational change, promoting self-service capabilities and a culture of speed-to-market while maintaining compliance and governance
Qualification
Required
7+ years cloud infrastructure technology experience
5+ years building and managing technology teams
Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach team members and motivate for continuous improvement
Expertise in championing modern ways-of-working such as Agile, Product management, DevOps, cloud architect and related practices. Experience in establishing standards and best practices for local team and community
Keen interest in research and maintaining knowledge on latest technologies, technical practices, industry news and challenges for Enterprise Cloud Platform and Containerization capabilities and practices
Proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive changes to improve business performance and productivity
Ability to adapt delivery to meet critical business and technology domain needs
Strong verbal & written communications skills
Demonstrated leadership to evangelize and drive efforts to maximize value of enterprise cloud platforms
Hands on architecture and design experience – Must have the ability to architect and scale the platform services used by hundreds of engineers
Demonstrated technical decision making in complex systems. Must have a track record of driving platform adoption through developer experience and technical enablement
Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects in the Cloud Native Eco systems
Deep Kubernetes or CNCF contributions
Deep experience on CNCF ecosystem like Helm, Envoy, Linkerd, Istio, Harbor, CoreDNS
DevOps practices and tooling such as CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code – terraform and Rancher, pipeline automation – GitLab and ArgoCD
Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud, cloud security, cloud networking and pipelines
Agile practices and Jira software experience
Collaboration and ability to work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platform
System observability and tracing using tools like – Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk
Preferred
Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life
Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results
Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same
Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously
Benefits
Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
Paid time off
Savings and retirement plan matching
Generous employee discount
Fitness & yoga classes
Parenthood top-up
Extensive catalog of development course offerings
People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)
Company
lululemon
Lululemon is a technical athletic apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other sweaty pursuits.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
STORY3 Capital PartnersAdvent International
2021-06-01Post Ipo Secondary
2014-08-08Post Ipo Equity
2007-07-27IPO
Leadership Team
Calvin McDonald
CEO
Meghan Frank
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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