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QVC · 4 days ago

Manager Platform Engineering

West Chester, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

QVC Group is a Fortune 500 company known for its live social shopping experience and various retail brands. The role involves leading the middleware platform engineering team to design and implement scalable middleware solutions, while also focusing on strategic platform development and incident response management.

Retail

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Middleware platform engineeringInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesCloud platformsProgramming in PythonNetworking conceptsLoad balancersContainerizationIncident responseTeam leadershipDocumentation

Required

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) and hybrid cloud architectures

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Paid time off

An employee assistance program

Parental leave

Paid volunteer hours

Amazing company discounts

Health care benefits starting on day 1

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement benefits

Company

QVC

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QVC® empowers shoppers with knowledge and shares insights in a lively and engaging way.

Founded in 1991

West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.qurateretailgroup.com/

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