Qurate Retail Group

Manager, Platform Engineering

Qurate Retail Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: West Chester • New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleApacheAWSAzureCloudConsulDNSDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHAProxyJavaJenkinsKafkaKubernetesNGINXPrometheusPythonRabbitMQTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

  • Design and architect scalable, highly available middleware platform solutions across NGINX, API Management (APIM), Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, MuleSoft, Azure Service Bus, and related technologies
  • Design and implement network architectures including internal/external load balancers (ALB, NLB, Azure Load Balancer, NGINX Plus), service mesh configurations, and traffic routing strategies
  • Build reference architectures and design patterns for middleware integration across the enterprise
  • Drive platform evolution from legacy systems to cloud-native, container-based architectures
  • Lead incident response for platform-level issues and drive root cause analysis to prevent recurrence
  • Write production-grade code in Python, Go, or similar languages for platform automation, tooling, and integrations
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or ARM templates to provision and manage middleware infrastructure
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines for middleware platform deployments and configuration management
  • Build monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions for middleware platforms using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Azure Monitor
  • Implement security best practices including network segmentation, firewall rules, API gateway security policies, and certificate management
  • Define and track SLOs/SLIs for middleware platforms and drive continuous reliability improvements
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and API specifications

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least 4 of the following middleware platforms: API Management : NGINX, Kong, Apigee, Azure APIM, AWS API Gateway
  • Message Queuing : Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS/SNS
  • Integration Platforms : MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Apache Camel
  • Service Mesh : Istio, Linkerd, Consul
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages with ability to write production code
  • Expert-level knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
  • Deep understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS protocols
  • Extensive experience with load balancers: NGINX Plus, HAProxy, F5, Azure Load Balancer, AWS ALB/NLB
  • Proficiency with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms
  • Strong experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure (preferably), AWS, or GCP)
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Paid time off
  • Employee assistance program
  • Parental leave
  • Paid volunteer hours
  • Amazing company discounts
  • Health care benefits starting on day 1
  • 401(k)
  • Tuition reimbursement benefits

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Hard skills
PythonGoJavaInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleCloudFormationCI/CDDockerKubernetes
Soft skills
leadershipincident responseroot cause analysisdocumentation