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Job Summary:

The Lowe's platform engineering team is looking for a highly motivated engineer to come and join us to develop and build platform and tools for life-cycle management of stateless and stateful workloads in multi-cloud environments.

The primary purpose of this role is to serve as a Sr. Software Engineer within our Platform Core Infra team contributing to the design, development, and support of an enterprise wide microservices platform. This individual will work closely with both architects and engineers to design, build, and iterate on a suite of automation which is responsible for the infrastructure setup, configuration, and integrations of key cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Vault and Consul, Spinnaker, etc.

This role assumes a high comfort level working in an iterative and fast paced agile environment. This role requires a cloud native design philosophy. Responsibilities may distribute across all major public cloud providers including Google, Azure, and AWS as well as our on-prem data centers and/or stores. The Software Engineering Consultant for Platform’s Core Infra team absolutely requires a strong passion and drive for automation, consumer experience, and improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translates complex cross-functional business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions; partners with Product Team to understand business needs and functional specifications.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs; evaluates project deliverables to ensure they meet specifications and architectural standards.

• Development experience on languages: Python/Shell/Golang, understanding of open-source tools like Consul/Terraform/Vault/Spinnaker etc.

• Experience of working with Kubernetes Cluster(s) or other container orchestrators in Production

• Has s solid grasp of software design patterns and development experience in Golang, Yaml, and Python/shell, understands application-level software architecture; makes technical trade-off decisions at application level.

• Strong understanding of DevOps culture, Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes Clusters, Containers, CICD practices, building solutions in public cloud (Google Cloud, Azure or AWS)

• Automates and simplifies team development, test, and operations processes; develops detailed architecture plans for large scale enterprise architecture projects and drives the plans to fruition.

• Solves complex architecture/design and business problems; solutions are extensible; works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.

• Provides mentoring and guidance to more junior level engineers; may provide feedback and direction on specific engineering tasks.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)

• 5 years of experience in software development or a related field

• 4 years of experience in containerization, virtualization and cloud technologies

• 4 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)

• 3 years of automation & development experience with various languages Python, Golang and etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, CIS, or related field

• 7 years of experience as platform engineer, DevOps engineer, application engineer or similar.

• Experience in building platforms to provide IAAS and PAAS solutions.

• Should have strong hands-on experience with Rancher, Istio, Kubernetes, Docker , Vault , Consul.

• SME in containerization , Virtualization ,Linux operating systems and cloud technologies with strong development and automation background.

• Strong experience with using Git and SME in CI/CD tools - Jenkins, ARGOCD, Spinnaker and etc.

• Strong Experience with Configuration management - Ansible or opcode chef

• Coding experience with Golang will be considered as an advantage.

• Experience working in micro services Architecture.

• Experience in defining define service level indicators (SLIs), objectives(SLOs), and agreements (SLAs) for micro-services

• Application tuning knowledge, capacity concepts, benchmarking, trending, and monitoring.

• Scripting experience in mainstream languages - GO and python.

• Experience of platform level concerns, such as configuration management, network request routing, blue/green or canary deployments

• knowledge of application servers and web servers, networks, firewalls, switches, load balancers.

About Lowe’s 

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.