Sr Engineer, Cloud Operations

About the role

We are seeking a Senior CloudOps Engineer with deep expertise in Cloud Operations, DevOps practices, and CI/CD tooling. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ulta Beauty’s cloud-native platforms, primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and optimize GCP workloads including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and related services.
• Operate, troubleshoot, and optimize Kubernetes clusters using kubectl, YAML manifests, Helm, and related tooling.
• Perform upgrades, scaling, cluster maintenance, and workload optimization.
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Partner with development teams to ensure smooth, reliable, and secure delivery workflows.
• Implement automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks.
• Support enterprise observability platforms (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).
• Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation efforts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and offshore teams to guide execution of cloud operations tasks.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in DevOps and cloud operations.
• Research within given research goals, assist in selection and review of credible and reliable resources to gain an up-to-date knowledge of any relevant field.
• Document work carried out and may contribute sections of material of publication quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of development experience with solid programming abilities including unit testing, debugging, and code profiling.
• Solid understanding of cloud architectures and associated design and development patterns.
• 2+ years of experience in development on cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS.
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with both Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with development languages including Bash, SQL, Java, Perl, Groovy, Python, or equivalents.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform products such as Kubernetes and Istio.
• Experience with source control repositories like Git/Bitbucket.
• Experience with Docker, Jira, Jenkins, or MongoDB (a plus).
• Excellent communication skills; feels comfortable working with non-technical business partners.
• Strong analysis/troubleshooting skills; able to assimilate information quickly.
• Flexibility of providing support during odd hours, weekends, and peak seasons.
• Minimal travel required (training/conferences).

Pay

The pay range for this position is $106,000.00 - $140,000.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs.